User talk:Barr59
Welcome
[edit]Welcome!
Hello, Barr59, 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:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
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- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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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 on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:37, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Barr59,
I read your comment on Talk:ThermaHelm. Well, about citing sources there is currently no consensus on a preferred citation style or system. APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago referencing styles are all okay. For example, the code for citing a book is: <ref>Author last name, author first name (yyyy). ''Book''. City: Publisher. p. page number/pp. page range using the en dash as separator.</ref>; while the code for citing a journal article is: <ref>Author last name, author first name (yyyy). "Title of the article". Journal volume(issue), page/page range separated by an en dash.</ref>... and so on.
There are also some templates that assist and help editors on citing sources ({{cite book}}; {{Citation}}; {{cite journal}}; {{cite web}}; {{cite conference}}; {{cite episode}}; {{cite news}}; {{cite press release}}; {{cite video}}; {{Cite thesis}}...) They are easy to use. You just need to fill in the values into the template fields (after the equal sign of each field) and include the whole template code into the REF HTML tag <ref>{{...template code (fileds and values)...}}</ref>. If you need to use the same source multiple times in an article, just give a "name" to one of its REF tags: <ref name="name_of_the_source">{{...template fileds and values...}}</ref> and then use <ref name="name_of_the_source" /> in all other occurrences. It is good practice to use the same method/style in the same article. For more details about citing sources please see: Wikipedia:Footnotes and Wikipedia:Citing sources.
In any case, if you need assistence/help just drop me a note on my talk page and I would be happy to help you. Happy editing! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:37, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking the time out to help a newbie by posting all this, Pjoef; I'll be studying these and the guidelines over the next few days. Happy editing to you too! Barr59 (talk) 17:23, 23 April 2011 (UTC)