User talk:Section6Song
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Speedy deletion nomination of A child asked What is the grass?
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Hang on
[edit]I have copied this from Talk:A child asked What is the grass?, because that page might be deleted soon. Chzz ► 02:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
This page is to be linked to a WikiProject for my Lit class. It's a work in progress until December 10th with a group of students. I couldn't use the page provided by the WikiProject link because it did not allow me to code links to references like this page does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Section6Song (talk • contribs) 02:04, 2 December 2010
- When you leave messages, please remember to "sign" your name, by putting ~~~~ (four tilde signs) at the end. This will add your name, and the date and time. You can also do this by clicking the 'sign' button, pictured to the right.
- I suppose this is something to do with the poetry Leaves of Grass - but as it stands, it is not an appropriate Wikipedia article. Please refer to WP:YFA.
- If you want to work on an article, make a user-space draft; you could use the article wizard for that. But live articles need to meet the basic criteria. Chzz ► 02:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Re. If this is to be deleted then can you tell me how to code in-text superscript links to the footnotes in a reference section? The <ref> stuff doesn't work on the WikiProject pages. - yes, it does.[1]
- ^ example
See below for help with it. Chzz ► 02:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
How references work
[edit]Simple references
[edit]These require two parts;
- a)
Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>
- b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";
== References == {{reflist}}
(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)
To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Section6Song/reftest and try it out.
Named references
[edit]Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>
Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.
Citation templates
[edit]You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;
Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref>
Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.
For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.