User talk:JCG33

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Unspecified source for Image:Barrow_Engine_Shop_1890.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:Barrow_Engine_Shop_1890.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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Barrow-in-Furness[edit]

Hi JCG33, thanks for your edits on the Barrow-in-Furness article. We're currently in the process of improving the article and hopefully have it classed one as having Good Article status. You seem to know a lot about the shipyards and shipbuilding, your expertise is most welcome.

I was wondering if you had references for the information you added about the early history of shipbuilding. Stuff without supporting references is liable to be deleted quickly as we try and prune the article into shape. I don't like to see good words and knowledge go to waste so if you can add some references to support what you have written it will avoid being deleted by an editor looking for unreferenced info.

If you need any help with coding references or anything else don't hesitate to ask me. There is also information on Wikipedia's referencing policy at WP:CITE. Thanks Kijog 13:16, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, referencing stuff can be complicated! Any reference needs the <ref></ref> tags around it for starters. This will generate the [1] superscript by the reference and its counterpart in the footnotes at the bottom. I then tend to use the citation templates (available at Wikipedia:Citation templates). In this case the 'cite book' template could be used.

{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = }}

I would put something along the following lines down after the paragraph you wrote: (Note you don't have to fill out every field, obviously ISBN numbers didn't exist then! The more you complete the better and more authoritive the reference)

<ref>{{cite book | last = The Naval and Armaments Company Limited | title = The Works at Barrow-in-Furness of The Naval Construction and Armaments Company Limited - Historical and Descriptive | publisher = The Naval and Armaments Company Limited, reprinted from 'Engineer' magazine. | date = 1896 | location = [[Barrow-in-Furness]] | pages = **You would need to enter these** }} </ref>

Hope that helps!

747[edit]

I saw where you just took out a citation. I don't have an objection but somebody may. If it happens later, the citation may be difficult to find. Could somebody say "Prove it to me that other airlines bought 747's at first in a frenzy to compete...the citation listed only lists the airlines that bought it and they might have bought it for other reasons."? If there were the citation that you took out, then nobody could challenge the statement.

I don't violently oppose your change but there does seem to be a purpose for that citation that you removed. Keeping it may avoid problems. Archtransit (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help copyediting, references and all! -Fnlayson (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes to Eurostar#New_destinations_and_competition[edit]

No, The Times of London did not write what you made of my carefully worded explanation. They wrote what I said they wrote, and then I explained the sense this has. Otherwise said: The Times did not write anything about EUKL, they only wrote about "a share of Eurostar". This needed to be clarified. Now you attribut the clear factual language to "The Times", which is wrong. I'll change it back. --L.Willms (talk) 22:13, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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