User talk:Boomerc

Welcome!

Hello, Boomerc, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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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Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:48, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references can be easy

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
Then click on "Templates".
Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header ==References== is near the end of the article.
And check that {{Reflist}} is directly underneath that header.

7. Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Shearonink (talk) 04:10, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

The "On the Right Path" Barnstar

	You're on the right path...
	Thanks for posting your insights at Talk:Henrietta Lacks about some referencing issues in its associated article, Henrietta Lacks. Well-done! Shearonink (talk) 17:40, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]