User talk:Bheff202
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Hello, Bheff202, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:35, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
Citing sources[edit]
Hey. Please have a look at and learn how to Wikipedia:Citing sources. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 08:06, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought it was all cited. I put number at the end that linked to the citation. Do you need a reference after every single sentence because when I had 3 references in a row- it was from the same website so I just put the citation at the end.
- Well, citing does NOT mean putting numbers. That's why I asked you to read above page, where you find everything explained for beginners, with links to other relevant help pages. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 08:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Okay, I was doing this for a school project. I read some of it before and thought I understood it but I guess not. I will read through the whole beginners citing page in full and watch videos to try and understand it better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.16.29.249 (talk) 08:18, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
- Great. While learning, you can also look at the formatting and structure of some good pages as samples like Gharial, Tiger, Caracal. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 08:30, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The most needed section in the page on narrow-striped mongoose is Characteristics. This section usually follows the section Taxonomy. If you want to write this, I suggest you read the sources under Taxonomy + name these refs for using them again. Important is also that you do NOT copy-paste content from other sources, but you need to reformulate !! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 08:41, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Okay- the Wikipedia person assigned to our class said if I copy from sandbox in edit mode then it will not break the citation. I just tried that for phylogeny and it looks like it linked to the pdf. Is that better? when you view it.
- 1) In most pages, Phylogeny is a subsection of Taxonomy. 2) Don't place external links in the midst of sentences; instead check for internal links. 3) external links to watermark are temporary, i.e. not available any more a few hours later. 4) You still need to learn how to cite, please use your sandbox. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Okay- I only used an external link when I was not finding an internal one to go along with it so I won't do that anymore then. I was always using sandbox but I guess I was copying and pasting and was not in edit mode. Then it broke my sources when I transferred them. I just tried adding to conservation tab again after re-doing my citation on sandbox. It looked correct on sandbox so I don't know what happened, but once I just corrected- I finally think it worked. (meaning I just corrected it again 30 seconds ago after trying to correct it 5 minutes ago when it still was not correct- so hopefully that one is good now) I am going to try doing the same thing for taxonomy.
I am not sure why the taxonomy citing is incorrect. In my sand box- it shows the first citation and the other 2 are labeled with <ref name > (and I have the name written out) it seemed like it was transferring properly.
- Why do you always use the Latin name? PLEEEASE look at other pages about wildlife species to learn which kind of content is provided in the different sections and how to reference journals. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 22:13, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Okay- I will look at the other pages for examples. I am in science classes and we are told to use Latin names and not common ones, which is why I was doing that but I guess on Wikipedia it could be different.
A note about copying sandbox content into articles[edit]
Hi Bheff202, when moving work out of the sandbox by copy/pasting, you must first put your sandbox in edit mode before copying other text. Otherwise, all the references will break. Please ensure you do this in the future! Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:16, 27 April 2020 (UTC)