Talk:National Electronic Library

I finished the translation

requested here: You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. How do I remove the "You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian." template? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walter Tau (talk • contribs) 21:03, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Tau, please fix the citation errors that you introduced into the article by calling undefined ref names. (If you scroll down to view the references section, you should see the error notices.) Also, please remember to sign your comments on talk pages, thank you. Schazjmd (talk) 23:24, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Schazjmd, thank you for your note. I agree with your comments. Two comments from me:

1) I copied references from the Russian wiki , that I translated. They look good there. Maybe you can explain , why the refs did not paste well in the English wiki- this is beyond my expertise.

2) there are many WikiOtters and other creatures, who take over after a WikiDragon like moi "vomited up the Universe". Please wait for them to swarm in before your knee-jerking deletionist impulse kicks in again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walter Tau (talk • contribs) 00:20, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Tau, a citation such as <ref name="create2" /> is calling the citation named create2 which is defined in full elsewhere in the article. When copying (or translating) text, you must include the full definition of the create2 citation so that the software can connect <ref name="create2" /> to the details of that source. Copying the name of the ref without its definition won't work, as you can see in the References section of this article. Anytime that you add sources to an article, you should visually examine the References section to make sure that you have not introduced errors. Schazjmd (talk) 12:46, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Tau, to fix this article, go to the original article and locate the fully defined refs create2, endwork1, and knigovidacha. In this article, find the first place that each of those refs is called, and replace ref name=create2 or endwork1 or knigovidach with the full citation. Schazjmd (talk) 16:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for your note. I am still not familiar with wiki-markup language for citations. I am installing Zotero today. Hopefully, it will generate citations in the proper format for Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walter Tau (talk • contribs) 12:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Walter Tau, Zotero will help format citations for sources that you add to the Zotero library. In the case of this article, the Russian wiki article that you copied the references from must contain the definition of the three named references that have errors; you need to copy the definition of those three sources from the Russian wiki article to this article. Schazjmd (talk) 13:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Schazjmd, Thank you again for your help. I am trying make for the first time a list of literature in wiki-style using Zotero. Could you please take a look at what I am getting now

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Orville_Peck#Publications_about_Orville_Peck and let me know, what I do wrong? Thank you in advance, Walter Tau (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Tau, you can try asking at WP:TEAHOUSE. I can't offer any advice because I can't make sense out of what you're trying to do on the Peck article. Schazjmd (talk) 14:12, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]