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Hi, Gerrickbrooke. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Shearonink (talk) 20:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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  • You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.
  • Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.
  • Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.
  • When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

--Shearonink (talk) 20:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Here's that link I mentioned in Help: Referencing for beginners. Shearonink (talk) 20:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Amberly Lobo

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You seem to have many of the referencing problems I had. It took a bit of digging around to find out how to do these things. Anyhow, my comments are as follows:

  • You should capitalize her last name.
  • If you have no external references, you can delete the section. At least delete the specimen reference to 'example.com'
  • For your web references you can profitably use the template given at Wikipedia:Citation_templates. Just copy and paste, and fill in the blanks. There's some important stuff in these templates, like access date.
  • You use one of your references to stand behind three facts you list. For this you should use a 'named reference'. See, wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(footnotes). This looks complicated but isn't. Essentially you type '<ref name="somename">http: //someref.html</ref> the first time you list it, then simply <ref name="somename" /> in all later uses of that reference to back up a fact. It does start to look messy with the web template, so just remember the simple case.
  • In your first reference, you forgot the 'html' thing at the beginning of the reference, so it didn't become a hyperlink.
  • If you are going to use the reference method that labels the reference, consider using something more descriptive than "Source 1" "Source 2" etc. Maybe the title of the website and a date?
  • When in doubt, the best way to figure out how to do a reference is to find another WP page with a web page reference and see how they did it.

Tkotc (talk) 05:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]