User talk:Marilynspikes

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Contributions to Pizza Hut article[edit]

Thank for you questions. Here is a link to the cumulative additions that you made on 25 Jan [1]. These fall into two topics:

Number of employees: The number you added is for the parent company,Yum! Brands, not for Pizza Hut itself, so is incorrect for the Pizza Hut infobox. This number is appropriate for the article on the parent company. Feel free to add it, as appropriate, to the article on Yum! Brands.
The Maniac culture section discusses an employee initiative of the Parent company, and as such is more appropriate for the Yum article. As added, it read like a marketing/public relations blub and did not explain any relationship to Pizza Hut. Wikipedia guidelines, Wikipedia:Advert, caution against such adding marketing info to company articles.

For a new editor, you did a nice job of working on figuring out ref tags. Just a little more info to help out.

Check out citation templates. For example, {{cite journal}}, which helps in formatting and adding more complete information to citations. For the article you used, this is how it would render

Berta, Dina (August 15, 2005). "Harnessing Yum's people power: chain giant strives for positive environment, employee success through incentives, benefits, training and rewards". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved 2008-01-25. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

If you are going to use the same citation multiple times, you can add an optional "name" to the ref tag (giving it a unique name of your chosing), so that when the tag is reused it lists it only once. For example, the first instance, you could use: (

<ref name=UniqueTag>[YOUR CITATION HERE].</ref>

The second instance, you can simply add <ref name=UniqueTag />.

Here is an example. First cited text.^[1] More text. More text. Second cited text.^[1] For the identifier, I chose the author's name and year of publication.

When you have a {{reflist}} in a Notes or References section you will get the following:

^ ^a ^b Berta, Dina (August 15, 2005). "Harnessing Yum's people power: chain giant strives for positive environment, employee success through incentives, benefits, training and rewards". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved 2008-01-25. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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— ERcheck (talk) 17:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[Berta2005-1] Berta, Dina (August 15, 2005). "Harnessing Yum's people power: chain giant strives for positive environment, employee success through incentives, benefits, training and rewards". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved 2008-01-25. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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