User talk:Jimc52

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Jimc52, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 06:03, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Section headers[edit]

I notice that you are using a non-standard format. Section headers are also used to 'build' the TOC. May I suggest MOS:SECTIONS for more info. Essentially, use "==Name==" for the top level, "===Name===" for the next level, etc. Cheers. Jim1138 (talk) 06:41, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citations[edit]

The minimum recommended format is <ref>[http:\\url.com comment]</ref> This hides the url and just shows "comment" in the references section. A more prefered method is <ref>{{cite web |url= http://url.com |title= comment |date= April 14, 1944 |accessdate = April 30, 2014 |author= ... etc... }}</ref> See template:cite web and template:cite book, and template:cite journal for information on this. If the link is lost, cite web will help others find alternative links. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:16, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Robert L. Ghormley[edit]

I undid your unexplained removal of sources. Please see wp:verifiablity as to why they should remain. If the links are bad, use Template:Dead link (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to flag them as dead links. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 07:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

April 2014[edit]

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Reference code[edit]

I saw the note you left at User talk:A930913/BracketBotArchives/ 10#BracketBot – Jimc52. While named references are indeed very useful, you should make sure that name and reference correspond to each other. At Robert L. Ghormley you assigned the name "Wukovits" to a book by James D. Hornfischer. Assigning the same name to different references won't work; if you check the reference list of that old version of the page you'll find that the reference was turned into the Wukovits one instead of the Hornfischer one. On a related note, I'd ask you to exercise a little more caution when using <ref> tags, and to preview your edits. The comment you left at A930913's talk page contained such tags, which were promptly interpreted as the beginning of a footnote. Thereby not only half your own comment wasn't displayed properly, even subsequent comments were interpreted as part of that never-ending footnote, too. There are special <nowiki></nowiki> tags in which you can enclose wikicode if you want to display it without it working. Huon (talk) 12:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]