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Close paraphrasing

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Duplication tool shows this may be a close paraphrase of the listed source. C1776MTalk 20:06, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copy edited. Try it again. 7&6=thirteen () 20:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Looks a lot better. I'll take off the tag. Thanks! C1776MTalk 20:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I also put in some real content, beyond the Cliff's notes. Thanks for taking off the tag. 7&6=thirteen () 21:09, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It helped that I had read neither the story nor the Cliffs notes. I just worked outward from what was there. 7&6=thirteen () 21:19, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I just looked back at it and figured I could have done it. I'm still new, so I'm timid at times. I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the {{cite book}} reference. I can't figure it out. C1776MTalk 21:25, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. C1776MTalk 21:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is so big, we can't do it all. One little project at a time. One citation at a time. Grunt work, but worth it. Don't be hard on yourself. I would like the citations to allow a statement about total number of pages, along with the specific page citation. 7&6=thirteen () 21:30, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that would make sense. The "help" link that showed up said the template can't handle both a page and pages tag. So I thought the specific citation was most important. Is there another way to do it? C1776MTalk 21:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
One could put in a list of references (which would have the total # of pages in the book) and then use the "SFN" format, with the specific page following it. I don;'t use that format much, so I'm not comfortable giving advice on it. See for example Canadian drug charges and trial of Jimi Hendrix. 7&6=thirteen () 21:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think about the way I just did it using {{rp|100}}? C1776MTalk 21:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You are using a template I have not observed before and do not know. Good suggestion though. Elegant. 7&6=thirteen () 21:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]