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I'd never imagined you were writing so much stuff! Well I might as well pollute your talk page to divert some of your attention :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackbird34 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, this is about district-related navboxes related to Uttar Pradesh. They all had links to similar navboxes on other districts of the same state. But, it seems you replaced all the links to navboxes of other districts to mere links to article pages of them, in edits such as this. The edits do not have much info in edit-comments ("links"). Can you please tell me why you made these changes? Was this based on some kind of guidelines or policies related to navboxes? Thanks.--GDibyendu (talk) 04:22, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Thanks for sharing this info. I kept the links of other navboxes, because I saw many more such uses, which still exist for similar navboxes related to other states of India. Right now, I won't be changing all such templates to remove all those template links, but, will do it later. Regards.--GDibyendu (talk) 14:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
hi, i noticed today that the bots seem to have accidentlly messed up the authors of the references on this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishma
(or if it was done manually then i don't know, but i think it was bots!)
it hasn't happened to the references on other wiki articles i a working on, (but that could be as fewer references could be found online and used for those articles.)
for example, in the above named article someone called "Hafez Ahmed" was wrongly credited for writing an article by "Haque Faruq Ahmed" and so on. i don't know how to fix this as i don't understand the ref tag things!
more information is given on the talk page about this. i was wondering why this happened or if i simply didn't understand something. Faisal961 (talk) 19:16, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yobot, a bot, has grouped multiple instances of the same reference with this edit. To group the refs it used <ref name="ReferenceA">…</ref> for the first instance, then replaced all identical subsequent instances with <ref name="ReferenceA" /> (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once). I've just changed the name to "jjdin.com", with this edit though since that's the name of the website in the reference.
But i saw no changes relating to authors. Could you clarify?? Maybe whoever inserted the refs in the first place got the author wrong? benzband (talk) 19:55, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
thank you for the helpful link, i will look at it sometime. i can't speak for others, but in my case i always just insert any citation link within ref tags is all, don't have any clue about adding author names and stuff (those are always there within the references anyway!) noticed that some links that i also used in the article at some point got authors may have gotten added automatically, as no user has mentioned in edit summaries about editing author names but then again who knows? at some time i may try to fix the glaringly obvious wrong citations, that article now literally has more references than lines so don't really have the patience to go through all of the refs to correct all the authors LOL! Faisal961 (talk) 20:17, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A way of neatly formatting references is using Wikipedia:Citation templates, of which the most common are probably {{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}. For instance, {{cite web|url=http://example.com|title=Example|author=Joe Bloggs|date=2 January 2012|work=The Daily Example|publisher=Example Media Group|accessdate=7 March 2013}} produces:
Joe Bloggs (2 January 2012). "Example". The Daily Example. Example Media Group. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
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Dear Benzband, Thank you so much for your help with my referencing issue. I wish that I was better with all of these rules; but I guess it's learn as I go. Many thanks for being such a patient Wikipedia mentor.
You're welcome! :-) benzband (talk) 11:21, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Rudy Buttignol - adding info for a ref in the ref section[edit]
Hello Benzband.
I am writing to ask you about how to do something on "Rudy Buttignol,"
Re paragraph 5 under "Career" I added something about his outreach mandate and then added an online ref to an event that took place about a week ago.
It looks ok in the "Career" section; however the format is not correct in the reference section at the end of the piece. This is what it looks like. It's ref # 17:
When you use templates (such as {{cite web}}) you have to remember to close them using }}. Typing {{cite web |url=http://theomega.ca/2013/03/10/knowledge-network-ceo-discusses-its-evolution/}} gives:
But there is a warning notice because you must add a |title= parameter. It's also good to add some more info from the cited webpage such as author, date, and so on (a full list of possible parameters for this template is in it's description page: Template:Cite web). That can be done like this: {{cite web |url=http://theomega.ca/2013/03/10/knowledge-network-ceo-discusses-its-evolution/ |title=Knowledge Network CEO discusses its evolution |date=March 10, 2013 |author=Devan C. Tasa |publisher=Thompson Rivers University |work=The Omega.ca}} which gives:
to High 
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