User talk:The duskydolphin

Welcome!

Hello, The duskydolphin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Natalie 01:54, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A few tips about reference tags

Hi. We are apparently both working on the references in Elephant intelligence and I have a couple of tips for you. Firstly, you can't use any spaces in the ref names. So the ref you named "Lecture Notes" should be "LectureNotes" or "Lecture_Notes". Also, the advantage of naming the ref is that you don't have to repeat the citation. With the Lecture Notes ref, again, you reprinted the whole citation a few times, which defeats the purpose of naming it. If you want to use a ref multiple times, you name the first one, and then type <ref name=ExampleName/>, which will repeat the ref you've already typed. You also might find Wikipedia: Citation templates helpful - these are templates you can use for the ref function. You don't have to fill all the fields - just delete the ones you have no use for. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Natalie 01:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC) Ohh Ok...yea...it came up all read when I went to save it. Thank you very much for helping this page..I'm kind of learning as I go but It's making much more sense now than when the page first went up! Thanks heaps you're a legend!The duskydolphin 01:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, those red letters are pretty noticeable. But you seem to be figuring things out pretty fast. You can always practice on your userpage, or in the sandbox. I'll stop editing the elephant article so we stop having edit conflicts and let you do your thing. Natalie 01:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oh..it was quite good having the edit help lol. But the templates are there now so it'll be easier. thanks again!The duskydolphin 01:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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