User talk:Professortemple

January 2023

Hello, I'm Zinnober9. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, 1980 United States presidential election in Connecticut, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Zinnober9 (talk) 21:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that - I am new to this and haven't figured out where the citation goes when I add these tables

The source is the CT state site Election results page - https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Election-Services/Statement-Of-Vote-PDFs/General-Elections-Statement-of-Vote-1922 Professortemple (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying and adding the reliable sources! I made a few adjustments to the Connecticuts (They were missing the |} to close the wikitable syntax, so I took care of those for you, and while at it, I added a header row to the table to "name" the table, and where the source for the table data would nicely go. Your Massachusetts edits and sourcing look fine. You could add the header like I did to Connecticut if you want. The Rhode Islands are (at the moment of this comment) missing the table closing bracket |} though.

I'd highly recommend you use the citation template instead of just pasting the <ref>bare link</ref>. Bare links are susceptible to link rot when websites move things around/rename parts of the site and fail to redirect things. You can access this template at the top of the edit pane (As shown here). You'll mostly use citeweb for most references, but it'll depend on the source. When the little popup form appears, I paste the url first, then click the magnifier next to that field to autofill what it can. Then I look to see if anything key to this source is missing. It does usually does rather well with Title, but sometimes has issues with Website name and First/Last Names (if relevant). For what you've been adding, I'd have Title, URL, Website name, and Date you accessed it, since these are pretty much always used.

Optional thing, but since you seem to understand the table syntax well enough so far, so I'll share how I added the table header where I named the Connecticut tables, and where I put the ref.

Table syntax. Collapsing so I don't clutter up page. Click show to see -->

To add the header that spans across the top, add

! colspan="number of columns" | Title (ref)
|-

like so:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
! colspan="2" | Title (ref)
|-
!first col
!second col
|-
|first row
|of data
|-
|second row
|etc...
|}

Gives this:

Title (ref)
first column	second column
first row	of data
second	row etc...

Thanks again for you contributions, and feel free to ask any questions in the Community portals, like WP:HELPDESK or WP:TEAHOUSE.
Happy New Year, Zinnober9 (talk) 03:39, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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