User talk:Iain Mac an tSaoir

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Iain Mac an tSaoir, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I saw that you posted to the Talk Page of GT and that you deleted your work. I also saw your edit at Talk Page of CR Paganism. The reason you are having formatting problems, is because you are indenting your text. I fixed your formatting to repair the table breakage. I can also fix your deleted text if you like. Don't sweat it - Wiki Markup is kind of archaic. If you need any help, feel free to hunt me down. Thanks for contributing! HroptR 03:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Citing References[edit]

Hello. I see that you have started eking out references at Gaelic Traditionalism. I just wanted to show you the proper format. At the end of the sentence where you want to cite a source, place a footnote like this: <ref>O Hogain(1991) pp.165-168</ref> which should render like this:^[1]

The reference will automagically appear down in the Notes section like this:

^ O Hogain (1991) pp.165-168

Then put the whole book reference down in the Reference section using this format:

 {{cite book
 | last =O Hogain
 | first =Daithi 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | year =1991
 | title =Myth, Legend and Romance - An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition
 | publisher =Prentice Hall Press 
 | location = 
 | id =ISBN 0132759594
 }}

Properly formatted, it will appear like this:

O Hogain, Daithi (1991). Myth, Legend and Romance - An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition. Prentice Hall Press. ISBN 0132759594. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

This is the easiest way which I know of to cite sources, but there are several different ways it can be done. You can learn more about it than you ever wanted to here and here. Hope this helps! WeniWidiWiki 06:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[1] O Hogain (1991) pp.165-168

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