User talk:Esmb11e

Hello, and thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and in particular for adding references, as you did to Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce! However, you should know that adding a bare URL is not ideal, and exposes the reference to linkrot. It is preferable to use proper citation templates when citing sources. A bare URL is a URL cited as a reference for some information in an article without any accompanying information about the linked page. In other words, it is just URL copied and pasted into the Wiki text, inserted between <ref>...</ref> tags, without title, author, date, or any of the usual information necessary for a bibliographic citation. Here's an example of a full citation using the {{cite web}} template to cite a web page:

Lorem ipsum<ref>{{cite web |title=Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac |publisher=Canon Inc |work=Ask a Question |date=2022 |url=https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART174839 |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> dolor sit amet.

which displays inline in the running text of the article as:

Lorem ipsum^[1] dolor sit amet.

and displays under References as:

1. ^ Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac". Ask a Question. Canon Inc. 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

If you've already entered one or more bare urls to an article, there are tools available to expand them into full citations; try the reFill tool, which can resolve some bare references semi-automatically. Once again, thanks for adding references to articles, and to avoid future link rot, please consider supplementing your bare URLs—creating full, inline citations with title, author, date, publisher, etc. More information can be found at Wikipedia:Inline citations. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 12:01, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May 23

Please do not create posts then (seemingly) attribute them to me as you did here [[1]] Slatersteven (talk) 10:53, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Operation Dessert hawk" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Operation Dessert hawk has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 7 § Operation Dessert hawk until a consensus is reached. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 19:38, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on List of shopping malls in India

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of shopping malls in India, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:22, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]