Talk:Una Ellis-Fermor

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Reverting

I have reverted a series of edits by @Wikiwarrior1: because they appear to be a pre-prepared text dumped into this article with no regard for existing content. The text looks like copyright violation - the references are already numbered, ignoring the two references which were in the article already. The addition included a set of "references" which included several Wikipedia articles (Wikipedia can't be used as a reference), for some reason used "nowiki" tags around most of the online sources, introduced malformed section headings, etc.

It may be that this is not copyright violation but an editor re-using work they have themself written for publication elsewhere or for school or college coursework (in some context where Wikipedia is allowed as a respectable reference). In that case the additons just need to be better integrated into the work of other editors, following Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

In a nutshell, the way to add references is to use <ref>text of reference goes here</ref>, added in the text. The references will then be automatically numbered, and listed using the {{reflist}} template. If you want to re-use a reference, give it a name: <ref name=fred>text of reference goes here</ref> and then later <ref name=fred /> as often as needed. Ideally where I wrote "text of reference goes here" there'd be a nicely formatted reference using {{cite journal}} or {{cite web}}, but as long as the basics are there (the full information you'd give in a written essay; the URL of a web page) other editors can tidy things up.

I'm sure this article can be expanded substantially, but today's edits caused so many problems that the only solution I could see was to revert the lot. Sorry. There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey. PamD 20:59, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]