User talk:Tbmiller3

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:16, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Amon Göth

Hi Tbmiller3. I have the Amon Göth page on my watch-list as I am the person who got it promoted to Good article status. You are on the right track now that you are adding a citation immediately after each new bit of content. Please stay off the page for the time being while I fix the broken Harvard citations and make some other corrections to the formatting. This will likely take 30 minutes to an hour. I will let you know when I am done. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:54, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I guess you didn't see my message? I will repair the broken things later :( — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:14, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa. I'm very sorry I did not see it; I was in the middle of editing and missed it until after. Sorry for any trouble it caused. I will wait now until you finish up and go back over everything I put it. Sorry again. (Tbmiller3 (talk) 22:19, 29 April 2018 (UTC))

I am starting now. I'll get back to you in a bit and explain what I did. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

We are rightly picky about what happens to our Good Articles and Featured Articles, because they have been vetted for quality via a formal review process and represent many hours of work. So that's why I was freaking out a little! Here's what I did:

• Teege's book was already listed in the "Further Reading" section. It doesn't need to be in there twice. So I've removed it from Further Reading.
• Adding the mark-up | ref = harv to each citation while using the {{sfn}} citation templates creates a clickable link from each short-form citation to the bibliography when done correctly. Source material that does not contain the necessary elements (both a named author and a year of publication) can be also done in this style by using the {{sfnRef}} template.
• We don't want ALL CAPS in our book titles, even if they appear in the original. Use proper captialization.
• Placing the author's last name first in the citation template makes it easy to verify from the editing window that the source books are all going to display in the correct alphabetical order.
• Note where I've altered the Megargee reference to place the material in some additional fields (chapter and volume).
• We don't need a citation after each sentence if the material is from the same book(s) and the same series of pages from those books. Exceptions include direct quotations and material that is likely to be challenged.
• Some of your prose did not meet the Good Article standard, so I did some copy edits and stylistic changes to make sure the article still meets the Good Article criteria.
• We can link to Wikipedia articles on other wikis using a special template {{ill}}. This was added to offer a link to the articles de:Steirischer Heimatschutz and de:Alter Kämpfer.
• Foreign words get italics, unless they are commonly used terms
• Wikilinked to Hitler. Everybody knows who he is, but still. Also linked to Chancellor of Germany, Margareten
• You have to identify the SA and offer a wikilink on first mention. People who are not familiar with the history of Nazi Germany will not know what you're talking about otherwise.
• We don't use the words for the seasons (summer, winter, autumn, spring) since the half of the world south of the Equator has the opposite seasons.
• Removed some potentially confusing material "(Göth was to be working on Judenumsiedlung (Jewish Resettlement))" - resettlement was a euphemism for sent away to be killed in the extermination camps.
• Removed off-topic material (Battle of Stalingrad - he wasn't there). Good Article criteria require us to stay on topic.
• Don't use unnecessary foreign words (such as aktion and Konzentrationslager). Remember many of your readers on Nazi Germany articles will be high school students studying the topic for the first time. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:27, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I have just completed some final tweeks. This article uses British spelling variant and day-month-year dates. Sorry it's all so complicated! But it's fun too! A very worthwhile pastime. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:37, 30 April 2018 (UTC)