User talk:Pel27

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Hello, Pel27, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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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 {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I noticed that Cornell Lab of Ornithology does not have any cited references at present. I encourage you to cite as many claims as possible when you have the chance. In particular, I would recommend using the refToolbar gadget, which you can add to your Wikipedia interface on the Gadgets pane of your Preferences page. The refToolbar gadget helps you to cite sources by presenting you with a form to type in a source's author, title, URL, date accessed, etc, and when you are finished, it will paste the correct data and markup code into the article. Thanks for all you do. —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Notyourbroom, As you may be able to tell, this was my first effort at putting anything on Wikipedia, so I'm fumbling around a bit. I've tried to improve the article by adding citations from a past article in Living Bird magazine outlining the activities at the Lab,a book written about the Lab's history and development, plus various source webpages for information in the article. Did I get this right? Thanks! Pel27 (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is a big step in the right direction. What is particularly helpful, though, is to have in-line citations that point to footnotes. That is what refToolbar (mentioned above) is very useful for. refToolbar is a powerful tool for creating consistently-formatted, reusable footnote citations. However, the easiest way for a new editor to make a footnote is to use the <ref>...</ref> tag. Anything put between <ref> and </ref> will appear as a footnote. See Help:Footnotes for help and examples for how to do this. Hope that helps, and welcome again! —Notyourbroom (talk) 00:41, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citation Barnstar

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		I award you the Citation Barnstar for your diligence in adding an abundance of in-line citations to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology article. Good work! —Notyourbroom (talk) 15:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, Well, thanks for the vote of confidence! I still have a few holes to fill, but I'm still working on the citations for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology article. I may have to finish up next week! Thanks for your guidance.Pel27 (talk) 15:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]