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Thanks. I finally saw [/read] this today. More later... if time permits. Mike Schwartz 18:57, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I decided to add a personal subpage sandbox page - at User talk:Mike Schwartz/subpage/sandbox ; (is this going to work?) Mike Schwartz (talk) 00:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can remove unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started. If you need any assistance, let me know. -- Mike Schwartz (talk) 14:15, 13 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, and authorised web sites. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is original research (e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research), or another wikipedia article.
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section (unless it already exists). This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):
Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.
Open the edit box for this page, copy the following text (inserting your own text where indicated), paste it at the bottom of the page and save the page:
(End of text to copy and paste.) It should appear like this:
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For an online newspaper source, it might look like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Note the single square brackets around the URL and the article title. The format is:
Make sure there is a space between the URL and the Title. This code results in the URL being hidden and the title showing as a link. Use double apostrophes for the article title (it is quoted text), and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics). Double square brackets round the name of the paper create an internal link (a wikilink) to the relevant wikipedia article. Apostrophes must go outside the brackets. The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead.
You can use sources which are not online, but which you have found in a library or elsewhere—in which case leave out the information which is not relevant. The newspaper example above would be formatted like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Here is an example for a book:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Make sure you put two single quote marks round the title (to generate italics), rather than one double quote mark.
These formats are all acceptable for dates:
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the <ref> code:
The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:
You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them. The quotes around the name are optional unless there is a space in the name. You can see multiple use of the same refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are three sources and they are each referenced three times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.
The above method is simple and combines references and notes into one section. A refinement is to put the full details of the references in their own section headed "References", while the notes which apply to them appear in a separate section headed "Notes". The notes can be inserted in the main article text in an abbreviated form as seen in Harriet Arbuthnot or in a full form as in Brown Dog affair.
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Hi. Thanks for spotting that syntax error. Also, if you see an obvious thing like that in the future, feel free to be bold and fix it yourself. Worse comes to worst, it can always be reverted per WP:BRD. Cheers. -- Nudve (talk) 03:41, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
thanks for pointing the error. i actually deleted that reference, and put in a new one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Veryhuman (talk • contribs) 21:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
i imagine the change was made by 'veryhuman' b/c he has both the before and after part. No idea what went on there. At any rate, I put the citation back. Lihaas (talk) 21:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
Note for someone (CALR?) (should it be copied / moved to the User talk page User_talk:CALR? -- or perhaps to the Talk:Mathematics "discussion" page?) (Actually, replying / answering here would seem OK to me...) This sentence:
Finally, information theory is concerned with the amount of data that can be stored on a given medium, and hence concepts such as compression and entropy.
appears to have been introduced here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&diff=65060026&oldid=65058680 My suggestion is: to change
and hence concepts such as
to [something like]
and hence deals with concepts such as
Sorry if I have made a mistake here by failing to "Be Bold" and just go and do the edit first ("and ask questions later"). Today I was inclined to err on the side of being cautious (and also maybe apologetic - - "just in case"). Mike Schwartz (talk) 18:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
I was going to put this on the Talk page for Wayne_Dolcefino, but it seemed so long, and the possible comments so unlikely to be surprising, that I just decided to "Be Bold" and make the edit. However, having put some time in to writing this, I didn't want to get rid of it completely. So, for your reading enjoyment, here it is:
In the article, Wayne_Dolcefino, this sentence: "A $5.5 million verdict for libel (Sylvester Turner v. KTRK Television; 1996) was subsequently overturned by a court of appeals and upheld by the Texas Supreme Court" appears. For one thing, it has a missing period at the end; but while we are fixing that, I would also suggest that we resolve the ambiguity. What does
"[...] and upheld by the Texas Supreme Court"
mean? By the default rules that are simply grammatical rules, the subject of the sentence ("$5.5 million verdict for libel") would also be the default, at least, for the antecedent of the ("implied") [zero-words-long] pronoun that is the suject for the verb "upheld" (as well as for the verb "was overturned", earlier, which is the main verb of that sentence). So (if you got through all that and are still awake here), that would imply that it means
"[...] and it [the $5.5 million verdict for libel] was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court."
But I mean, come on, I don't think that is what was intended. I am not a lawyer, but that doesn't seem to fit in very well with the context (the paragraph it occurs in). It is preceded by a sentence saying "Dolcefino and his employer have been the target of various lawsuits.". That would normally require some word such as "however", if the writer were intentionally going on to discuss a case where "Dolcefino and his employer" had ended up [when all the smoke cleared] actually losing a given case.
So it is pretty likely that the intent of
"[...] and upheld by the Texas Supreme Court"
was to tell us that the overturning -- that is, the action by the appeals court -- was later "upheld" by the Texas Supreme Court. But in that case, say that! Say what it "should" say. For example, say
"[...] whose decision was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court."
Make it unambiguous -- even though the "context" analysis (see above) is already possible, and (with some logic) could serve to indicate to us what it [probably] "should" say. IMHO this is a good general principle of the careful use of language - write what you mean, clearly, so that no Wayne Dolcefino-style investigative sleuthing is needed to determine what was meant. Before I fix this, does anyone have any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 21:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
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I left Wikipedia a few months ago and only saw your message after an email led me back to the site. So before I go again, some quick answers to your questions:
Good luck. 52 Pickup (talk) 20:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I only just found your discussion about this on Malcolm Schosa's talk page. I don't believe there's any need to pay special attention to the book, since it will be obvious to any reader that the article is not about a book. Hopefully the author of "Practical Kabbalah" has made it sufficiently clear that his book is not about magic, because he's using a phrase with a pre-established meaning as his book title, and if that's not the meaning he intends, he should really have done his homework a little better. But I don't believe it's a problem either way, since readers of either the article or the book will very quickly realise what the differences are. And when it comes down to it, we don't even know if the book is notable, so I don't think we need to make any reference to it at all.
And no, I don't think you're a spammer. Cheers! Fuzzypeg★ 04:37, 6 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
I just made some major changes to the Rice University article to remove extraneous fluff about traditions and add more important content about academics, research, and organization. Please check in and review it! Madcoverboy (talk) 23:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks. As I mention on the talk page updating the incoming links is a bit of an obsession. If you move a page then you should at least be willing to fix the thing as well. On a couple of occasions when someone has done a page move that left behind 20+ double redirects or links to a disambiguation I moved the page back and told them to clean it. Seems to annoy people when you tell them to clean things up. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 10:29, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
I noticed at http://pathos.ca/tools/etymologyreader/index.php?example=1 that it does not expand the character string "equiv." to "equivalent". Most readers probably do understand the meaning of both of those strings, so perhaps it would not be a "big" improvement. So I am just suggesting that you consider that feature -- and you decide whether to actually "add" that feature. -- Mike Schwartz (talk) 06:46, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
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I did fine work 3 1/2 years ago, did I not? The guideline WP:DAB used to specifically exclude lists of surnames and given names. but now it has been somewhat simplified, and no longer spells out how to handle these. But I think the comment still holds true. I moved the entry for Uziel Gal to the "See also" section. I don't see any value in asking a question in comments on this kind of article page, and signing an edit to an article page is never done. If there were two or more notable people with that given name, you could create a page for "Uziel (given name)", but for now this has all the bases covered. Happy editing! Chris the speller yack 23:25, 26 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hey Mike, that message about permissions is a bit misleading: it has nothing to do with user privileges, at least not at Wikipedia. Rather, the Stanford Daily website has completely redesigned a few times since that link was added to the article, so the link broke and their website isn't very clear about what happened. I've updated the link – err, revived it. Thanks for your contribution to the article! – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:40, 21 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
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– Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:46, 27 January 2012 (UTC)ReplyCool, WebCite sounds like a good idea. Wikipedia uses UTC time for most things, so the dates are correct. Actually, I don't think the accessdate and archivedate are a big deal in this case, because the text of the original article isn't likely to change (just the surroundings). Thanks for your diligence! – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 21:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
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Why are you putting Simson Garfinkel's page in your sandbox? 69.143.180.9 (talk) 05:02, 20 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
. I hope that will be harmless.This sandbox page was used for an experiment, that has now been concluded. For more details (e.g., of why, and why I did not blank the page [myself] sooner), see my talk page. Thank you! --Mike Schwartz (talk) 06:09, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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Recently I tried to save a certain edit (in article space), and I got a WARNING like the one shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Abusefilter-warning-archiveis#Edit_request_on_15_November_2013.E2.80.8E [1]
That was (iirc) the first time I had ever seen that warning. (I was trying to add "or http://www.archive.today/Y00Gd[dead link]" to (the "see also" part of) the "Note" in footnote [3] of this version of the article about Hiloni).
I guess there is some more information available at a place [2] (an RFC?) that is pointed to by a link from inside the WARNING shown at [1]. That is, the place [2] is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.is_RFC .
Now, most of this stuff is NEW to me. I haven't read the RFC (yet), and I've only read part of the info at [1].
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Hey. Can I know the reason behind this edit? Because the result is ... well, not great at all. But if there is a problem you are trying to solve, I am open to a compromise or a better solution or ... just accepting it when there is a very good reason.
Of course, you were editing a MOS; revert is 90% of times the outcome. Fleet Command (talk) 08:51, 15 January 2015 (UTC)Reply
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, to cite or "quote" an example of a command-line entry, would be appropriate there. Apparently, I was wrong. ...and apparently, what [there is to know, that] I don't know, [e.g., about that "90%" rule] about "MOS pages", would fill a book[or an MOS page...]... :-) Thanks.
--Mike Schwartz (talk) 17:31, 15 January 2015 (UTC)ReplySorry if this is a silly question. I have been editing wikipedia for years.
I noticed a link to Help:Getting started (it was displayed as "Getting started) on someone else's "Talk:" page (see User_talk:Joseph_Nahan_Hirsch#Welcome! -- I think that is where it was ['from']).
But then, I tried clicking on the [ever present] link labeled "Help" over on the left-hand side "Nav" column. It took me to Help:Contents -- which has (it includes) a template or "navigation box" there, (with the title "Wikipedia help pages" at the top) (and that [title] is also a hyperlink, pointing to "Help:Contents/Directory"); and that (nav) box is preceded by a helpful "explanation" that says:
The blue bar that follows is a navigation box linking many help pages. Click "show" on the right to expand it.
At that point, I noticed something puzzling. That [huge!] "navigation box" ("Wikipedia help pages") did not seem to contain any entry for the nice (helpful) page "Help:Getting started"!
Is it me, or is that a mistake? The page "Help:Getting started" seems to have a name (or address) that starts with the word "Help:" ["!"] ... which does make sense (right?).
Did someone conclude that the link to the Help:Getting started page should be omitted (intentionally?) from the "navigation box" there, for Wikipedia help pages?
Actually, never mind whether it was omitted "intentionally" or not! Wouldn't it be a good idea to include it? YMMV, but, as for me, having been a user of Wikipedia for over 11 years, and an editor for almost that long, I still would not consider it "beneath" me to use a "Wikipedia help pages" nav box that contained a ["beginner"?] link to the "Help:Getting started" page.
Any comments? Thanks... --Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:08, 24 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that suggested edits should be placed on the talk page of an article, instead of using square brackets. In your edit [1] to the MMS article, you put the words "acts as a relay, and" in square brackets, presumably to suggest that this would be a better way to phrase the sentence. Be bold, my man! Just insert your suggestions, and if they don't work, someone will let you know or correct it. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and I hope you'll stick around and keep editing! Air ♠ Combat What'sup, dog? 22:13, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Could you please not do this? Post it to the relevant talk pages if you think its needs addressed. Leaving big commentary style hidden notes doesn't help future editors who edit the article. Use the article's talk page. I think this is the second time I've asked you not to do it. -- ferret (talk) 23:51, 24 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
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There is a section that is "now" probably at a URL that is unlikely to change any more ... since it has already been archived; ... but it "IS" at a different place, from where it originally started out.
It is now at:
... and if (for any reason) that hyperlink does not work, then, this link to one of its sub-sections, should work OK:
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_24#What_my_question_is [2]
Note that [wikitext "partial"] URL labeled "[2]", does not contain as many "double quote" marks within the section name (or, sub-section name); (maybe ZERO! of them...) so maybe it will be less likely to encounter some "violation of a rule" that I am not very familiar with.
PS: This might be a little bit off-topic, but the recent posting at User_talk:Wbm1058#A_new_question_(maybe_it_should_have_been_asked_"somewhere_else"?) (the DIFF listing for that, ("pointed to" [from near here] by the nearby hyperlink ... the one right before the words "listing for that") might also have some useful info, about where some of the above things (like "[1]" and "[2]") used to reside, before they got archived.
Just "FYI"... --Mike Schwartz (talk) 22:29, 31 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi Mike Schwartz, I have added a blue link to Temple Emanu-El (Houston) and removed the <ref> bit that you had added (they're not used on disambiguation pages). It is fine to have a red link or even an unlinked entry as long as there is a blue-linked article that includes the term in question (as per MOS:DAB). Leschnei (talk) 22:10, 14 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
"<ref>"
tag!) -- on a disambiguation [“dab”] page.It is fine to have a red link [...]
Does that perhaps relate (in some way) to ... the fact that the article about Houston does mention "Emanu-El"? (under "Religion") -- ? --as long as there is a blue-linked article that includes the term in question [...]
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I was on that article and I confess unfortunately to being the worlds worst speller and grammar person and have a triage of followers who go around after me. This article and at least one associate one was subject to some heavy AfD's so may have exhausted me. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:16, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
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to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:26, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
I would almost say that ... this is (like) one that "got away".
When I edit an article, if I forget to include one of the changes, or ... if I include one or more "incorrect" (or otherwise "regrettable") changes, then ... there is still an opportunity -- perhaps the next day, or even sooner ... to edit that same article again, and make some correction[s].
However, in the case of ... where a slip of the mouse or keyboard has resulted in (unintentionally) finalizing an edit, when the "edit comment" is (in the opinion of the editor) not really ready for prime time, then ... there is no such second chance.
NOTE: The finalizing of the edit, can be caused -- unintentionally or not -- by
clicking on "Publish Changes
", but I think it is possible for it to [instead] be caused by a slip of the keyboard.
Just for the record, before I decided -- today -- to "intentionally" finalize this recent edit, I was planning to change the "edit comment" to say:
/* top */ change the brackets in the wikilink for the entry about "Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)". Instead of having the brackets surround the entire entry there, which [before this edit] caused the entire entry there to be displayed as a red link, instead, retain the red link for the word "Fellow", and make (most of) the rest of that entry, a [blue] link, pointing to the article about [the organization] "SIAM".
However, by then it was too late ... my changes to the article itself, had already happened. (With ... apparently ... an older version of the "edit comment".)
Maybe I could have added (or deleted) a blank somewhere (one that does not matter), and inserted the newer (more "up to date") comment; but instead I decided to add this little section (will anyone read it? maybe not...) here.
Enjoy . . . Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:44, 13 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
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to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply