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Regarding User:Giano/Thomas Sayers

Hi, just wanted to remind you of the "move" feature, please use it rather than cut & paste to move pages around, even from your own user subpages. That way the edit history wich is required for GFDL compliance is not lost (not rely a problem in this case seeing as you are the only editor, but still). I merged the history from the subpage with the main article, so no problem just keep in mind for the future. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 17:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have created articles in this way may times - with no problem at all. I am aware how to move a page and of edit histories. In future I shall create articles in a word processor file. I see no advantage to the early edits and birth pangs on an article often full of mistakes in an edit history. Giano | talk 17:20, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, Giano - surely the point of creating the article in your userspace is precisely to avoid having the edit history littered with you correcting your own typos. Nothing matters in that edit history before you cut and pasted it to artile space. Would you like me to delete the "birth pangs" again?
Now, if I had done a light copyedit first... -- ALoan (Talk) 17:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ah ALoan, thank you - please copy edit and do as you see fit - actually the page should probably have the history too of Tom Sayers but that was just a 1911 text dump and nothing of it remains - I'll leave it in your capable hands to sort it all out - all these multiple admins everywhere, perhaps they should take something like a driving test before being allowed out! Giano | talk 18:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh I've just realised that thing of Bishonen's moves about - Remarkable! Giano | talk 18:20, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that, 'tis nothing. You think the icosahedron is remarkable, get a load of the cute cyclic wikimood animation on my page. :-) Bishonen | talk 00:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC).[reply]
What?! You just realized it moves?! Paul August ☎ 04:49, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Thomas Sayers, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 18:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, sir :) -- ALoan (Talk) 18:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I thought you had nominated it... I wonder who did. I'll re-copyedit it.
Harvard is ugly however you do it :) I would recommend the new <ref> style, which is simplicity itself. Look at, oh, Medici Vase. -- ALoan (Talk) 20:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have more vases - see Borghese Vase - and there are redlinks on another of mine, Gardens of Sallust - to fill in. The Ludovisi Throne sounds interesting, but I have been concentrating on getting List of Law Life Peerages in shape today.
Yes, you put the footnote text inside <ref> ... </ref> tags (always remembering the second one, otherwise it fails horribly), and then add a usual "References" section with a <references /> tag in it. Simple! And, yes, it works automagically. The FAC crowd swoon when they see it :) You can also add a "name" to the <ref> (<ref name="Fred_p21">) so you can use it more than once. I think Saffron is the epitome at the moment, although it puts the <references /> tag in a "Notes" section, and has a separate "References" section referred to by the Notes, which themselves use Harvard style using the {{Harv}} template (which I had not seen until just now). -- ALoan (Talk) 21:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Let me try a simpler stab at it. First, put the magic tag <references/> wherever it is that you want the list of footnotes to show up. Then, wherever you want to put a footnote into your prose, add <ref>My footnote data goes here</ref>. The "My footnore data goes here" will show up not in the prose but down at the bottom in a linked footnote. It's almost simpler to do than explain. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 21:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I have confused you with my enthusiasm. Here is a very simple example.

It is very easy.[1] Look, I just add these ref things and it does the numbering automatically. [2] Even if I refer to the same thing again.[1] [2]

References

  1. ^ a b ALoan, 2006, p.21
  2. ^ a b ALoan, 2006, p.22

It really is that simple. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:49, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • That looks like algebra - I've had a much better idea, why don't I just write - and then you could both come along and do the tricky reference bits - it wouldn't be hard - I generally make them up or choose those that are going to agree with me anyway! You could just stick them in as the whim and fancy takes you! Giano | talk 22:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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