Talk:Tasmania's Offshore Islands

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Formatting of references[edit]

Hi JarrahTree. Would you please visit WP:CITE and take a few minutes to read on how to correctly cite sources. Your citing in this article was sloppy, at best. Additionally, you interpreted the cited sources instead of actually citing the sources directly. Generally speaking it is considered poor editing when an editor has placed links in the formats that you used in creating and editing this article, namely:

[1] Offshore islands of Australia issue paper.
[2] overview of Brothers and others work on islands.
[3] overview of Brothers work.
[4] quote included in Trove catalogue entry for the book.
see Category:Coastline of Tasmania for the differences with usage on wikipedia.

I have substituted each of the above links with the following references:

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. "Chapter 9: Prioritisation of high conservation status offshore islands" (PDF). Ecosure. National Library of Australia. Archived from the original (0809-1197) on 11 November 2009. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |dead-url=, |subscription=, and |registration= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Pryor, Helen (2004). "Small Offshore Island Management Planning in Tasmania – a collaborative approach" (Conference paper). Coast to Coast. National Library of Australia.
"Directory: Library Catalogue : H.L. White Library: Tasmania's offshore islands, seabirds and other natural features". Birds Australia. National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2015. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |dead-url=, |registration=, and |subscription= (help)
Brothers, Nigel (2001). "Tasmania's offshore islands : seabirds and other natural features". Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-7246-4816-0. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) as quoted in the National Library of Australia
coastal regions

If unsure on what template to use, the best thing that you can do is to cite the reference with its full title only in the format below:

Chapter 9: Prioritisation of high conservation status offshore islands.

Please take care to not put your own personal spin on the sources. Many thanks. Rangasyd (talk) 08:19, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]