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• {{sfn|Austen|2008|pp=4-6|loc="The main purpose ... the strongest."}} To place a quote in a reference citation.
• Translation abbreviation: trans_title=
• Coauthors format: |last1=Perry |first1=Barbara |last2=Abraham |first2=Henry
• Wikipedia:List of guidelines
• IMDb list of cast: [1]
• Code for a collapsible section:

{| class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%; background:transparent;" !colspan= | Leonard Cheshire current war narrative |- |colspan="2" | Concealed content |}

• Quotation, Article format:

<ref>{{cite web|title=1991: LeMond Alpe d'Huez|url=http://www.calfeedesign.com/history/|publisher=calfeedesign.com|accessdate=10 December 2012|quote=place quote here}}</ref>

• Quotation, Book format:

{{sfn|author|year (of most recent edition)|p=page number|loc=place quote here}}

• Referencing a book written in a foreign language:

* {{Cite book |last=Fellgiebel |first=Walther-Peer |authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel |year=2000 |origyear=1986 |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile |trans_title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches |language=German |location=Friedberg, Germany |publisher=Podzun-Pallas |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6 |ref=harv }}

• Wikipedia:Citing sources - templates can be found here for a variety of reference sources

References

When unsure of the contents of the citation, one can turn to the WorldCat website: http://www.worldcat.org. In addition to the basic information about every book, they also have a tool that can format the citation. Here are two examples, using Chicago style formatting:

• Lee, Robert E., and Devereaux D. Cannon. The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee. Gretna, LA: Pelican, 1997. ISBN 978-1-56554-275-4.
• Fisher, Bob and Bob Ross, The America's Cup 1987: The Official Record. New York, NY: Pierson 1987. ISBN 0-947068-05-8.

Policies and guidelines

Desolation Island

Before she can reach the Cape of Good Hope the Leopard encounters the Waakzaamheid, which chases her south. Over the next several days the two ships are driven further and further south, while the winds and waves increase while the ships begin exchanging shot. With the seas rising and the Waakzaamheid nearly on top of her Captain Aubrey is struck by a large splinter and is knocked senseless. The Waakzaamheid is struck at her foremast, causing it to fall into the sea. Without its driving force the Waakzaamheid yaws onto her beam ends in the trough of a deep wave and is overwhelmed by the next, sinking with all hands.

Now east and well south of the Cape, the Leopard heads on to New South Wales, hoping to gather ice as a source of fresh water. While using the boats to do so the ship strikes a berg, destroying the rudder and creating a large gash in the hull. All hands pump, and efforts are made to fother a sail to check the leak. Guns and water are cast overboard to lighten the ship. With the ship settling Grant asks permission to leave on the boats. Aubrey is committed to staying with his ship, believing it can yet be saved, but gives Grant permission to provision and launch the boats, taking with him those who wish to leave. The Leopard is driven east by the wind, still rudderless and pumping all the time. With a jury-rigged rudder, Aubrey guides the ship to a sheltered bay of Desolation Island. Despite its name, it is full of fresh game in the rainy Antarctic summer.

The damage to the ship's hull is repaired, but there is no way to fashion a mounting for a replacement rudder without the use of their forge, which was sent over the side with the guns. Maturin and Herapath collect samples of the local plant and animal life, while the crew gather stores of meat, and a cabbage which can eliminate scurvy. A small island in the bay is used by Maturin for observations. A few days later an American whaler arrives in the bay. It is the Lafayette, a brig returning to the bay to re-supply with cabbages. They have a number of medical problems and have no surgeon, but they do have a forge. With American – British tensions from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair of 1807, continued British pressing of Americans into the Royal Navy, and awareness that the two nations might already be at war, tensions run high. Maturin uses Herapath as an envoy to Captain Putnam, following later to provide medical care to the crew. Putnam offers payment, which is refused. Early the next morning the forge is moved to the beach. Maturin sees an opportunity to speed his plan to use Mrs. Wogan to undermine the French intelligence services. They are in possession of false information Maturin had asked Herapath to copy. Now pregnant with Herapath's child, he allows her and Herapath to slip away on the whaler. The rudder attachments are fashioned and the forge returned. The Lafayette sails on the tide. Maturin advises Aubrey to allow the Lafayette to leave unmolested. Maturin and Barret Bonden watch from the island while the ship picks up Herapath and Mrs Wogan, and the two are carried out of the bay.

Chapman

Chapman was a high school basketball standout at Apollo High School in Owensboro, Kentucky. During his junior year, Chapman led his team to the state quarterfinals. He racked up numerous awards and accolades his senior year including Mr. Basketball of Kentucky, Gatorade State Player of the Year, Associated Press Player of the Year, and McDonalds's All-American. In 2020 radio host Matt Jones described Chapman as, "the biggest high school basketball player that ever came from the state." He was inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. Chapman was heavily recruited by many universities, but chose to stay close to home and signed with the University of Kentucky.

Chapman was a star with the . averaged 16 points a game as a freshman, setting

Highly anticipated in Lexington, Chapman made an immediate impact. He set a record for points scored by a freshman player, and was named the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year. At 18-9, the Wildcats tied for third in the SEC, losing to Auburn in the SEC tournament. They were an #8 seed in the Southeast Region of the 1987 NCAA Tournament, losing in the first round to #9 seed Ohio State.

In his sophomore year Chapman improved his scoring average from 16 to 19 points a game. With teammates such as future NBA journeyman Winston Bennett, Chapman led Kentucky to the SEC title with a 27–6 record. The Wildcats were ranked as the 6th college basketball team in the nation by the Associated Press and United Press International and secured the No. 2 seed in the South region of the 1988 NCAA Tournament. Kentucky reached the Sweet Sixteen, where Chapman scored a career best 30 points in a losing effort against Villanova.

Chapman was named to the All-SEC Team in both seasons of his college career, scoring 1,073 points before opting to enter the NBA draft. Chapman left the University as a "campus legend" with the nickname "King Rex".

Chapman has stated while at Kentucky he found the attention he received and the scrutiny of his life style choices were difficult. Chapman noted university officials, including members of the coaching staff, discouraged him from interracial relationships. Chapman stated at times he was harassed by other students, and recounted his car being keyed with a racial epithet. "It wore on me," said Chapman.

Racing

Garner had an interest in auto racing since his youth, but his interest was magnified during preparations for filming of Grand Prix. John Frankenheimer, the director and impetus behind the project, was determined to make the film as realistic as possible. He was trying to determine which actor he could focus on for high speed takes. At his disposal were the services of Bob Bondurant, a Formula 1 racer who was serving as technical consultant for the film. The first step was to place the actors in a two seater version of a Formula 1 car to see how they would handle the high speeds. Bondurant noted all the actors became quite frightened over 240 kph, all except Garner, who returned to the pit laughing like an excited child. Said Bondurant, "This is your man". From there on out, all the actors were placed in Jim Russell's race driver training program. All, that is, except for Garner, whom Bonderant was assigned to personally to train up. Garner proved to be a good student, a hard worker and a talented driver. Compared to the other actors in the movie, Bondurant tagged Garner as being 'light years' ahead. By the end of the film Bonderant claimed Garner could compete on a Formula 1 team, and would best some of the drivers currently in the field.

Said Frankenheimer: "I honestly believe that if Garner had decided he was going to do this as a young man, he could have made a very good career as a race driver... he was that good." Two months at Willow Springs with Bob Bondurant "What Bondurant taught me... was a lot." "I thought Garner did an excellent job of driving. He got smooth. He got going fairly quick. If he was in a real race he would have been able to beat several drivers. In a Formula 1 race, that's saying a lot."

That's why we see so much of Garner racing at Monaco, with close-ups of him as a driver negotiating the course. That's not Garner acting, that's Garner driving the course as fast as he safely can. When asked about the dangers, whether he was conscious of it all the time or was he thinking about the camera angle for the shot, Garner replied "When you are in a car, particularly a Formula car but any car, you cannot think of anything else. If you don't think of going from one point to another, from your breaking point, to gearing down, to where you make your turn into a corner... if you stray from that, and you worry about where that camera is or anything like that, then you are off the course. So we strictly do not worry about that. We'll do our acting in the pits."

Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabàto Sr.

Kerry - drove for Brian Bedford, wore the mask.

Film

Simple things like, what is the guideline for listing movies? Are the titles italicized? Placed inside quotation marks? Double? Single? Can you show me using Wikipedia MoS Guidelines

• Ans: Go to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, then down to subsection Titles, and you find the following:
  • Use italics for the titles of works (such as books, films, television series, named exhibitions, computer games, music albums, and paintings).
  • The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks.

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• MOS:IMAGES
• Wikipedia:List of guidelines
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images "Multiple images in the same article can be staggered right-and-left."
• Wikipedia:AGF

See

• Wikipedia:No original research
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• undue weight

See also: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view § Bias in sources, and Wikipedia:Neutrality of sources

• how would you cite a documentary?

Use of sources that may show a bias

Editors should also consider whether the bias makes it appropriate to use in-text attribution to the source, as in "Feminist Betty Friedan wrote that...", "According to the Marxist economist Harry Magdoff...," or "Conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater believed that...".

• Template:Refimprove This template indicates that the article needs additional inline citations. This template should be used only for articles where there are some, but insufficient, inline citations to support the material currently in the article.

If it is thought the article needs more citations, or more secondary source citations, or more English language citations, then you would use a different tag at the top of the page.

There is also the problem of recentism, where current revisionism has its own bias which we may not want Wikipedia to promote.

Questions to answer

You can search the encylopedia by using Google search and the search terms "wiki.riteme.site"+"search topic"

How do you write numbers in the text?

• Ans: Integers from zero to nine are spelled out as words. Integers greater than nine that can be expressed in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words. Other numbers are given in numerals or in forms such as 21 million.
• In general, use decimals rather than fractions for measurements (eg 0.25 rather than 1/4)

What date do you use on a periodical article that was published on one date and updated on another

• See
• Use the updated date.

What things should be in wikipedia

• biography?
• history?

How long should an article be?

See WP:SIZERULE. Wikipedia recommends that article length be somewhere between 40,000 bytes and 60,000 bytes of readable prose. If the article is 42,000 bytes in readable prose it would not need to have content eliminated for the sake of size.

How should you handle a long list of something, like a list of sand beach tournament victories?

You could put these into a table. How to create a table looks a little complicated, but it could be done.

Duplication of story

What if something is mentioned elsewhere, but it really pertains to an individual? Should you talk about the games you went through to win a gold medal, or should that all be left in an article about the tournament? Seems it would be okay to mention it if it is really important to the player you are writing about, and that would allow the match to be described from her perspective, rather than, say, Cuba's, or from the perspective of a non-invested reporter, which none of them really are.

What would constitute a justifiable deletion?

• removing awards won?

still looking for where this would be addressed. It seems obvious awards won would be considered significant and should be included in a biography, right? Can't find a clear statement one way or another. Maybe on Biography manual of style.

• rank, for say an officer being discussed

It seems the convention used is to mention the individual's rank as a descriptor if the individual is a one star or above. May mention rank if the person is offering commentary as an expert in the field. Also mention active or retired. This appears to be the convention, but thus far I have not found a MoS directive on this subject.

• where should awards be listed, the end of the article? And how should they be listed? In a list? In a medal display? (See James Garner).

Answers to the questions

Answers to the questions | Editing
In my opinion it would be best if editors edited articles on topics which they were familiar with. An editor who is not interested in a topic, say a movie being described or an historical event in general, and has not seen the movie or read on the topic, should not be doing a lot of editing on such a topic.

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