User talk:Mariswp
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Hello, Mariswp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Hello, Mariswp, and welcome. And thanks for contributing to this article!
What happened is this: the fourth reference -- the one right after "Founding editor of OGEL was Professor Thomas W. Wälde (1949–2008) -- had an opening <ref> tag but not a closing </ref> tag.
So why didn't it give an actually useful error message like "ERROR, opening <ref> without closing </ref>"? Well, it's a computer, and computers aren't always that smart. It saw the opening </ref>, and since the ref was never ended, it figured that everything after that -- the whole rest of of the article -- must be part of that ref! Including the {{reflist}} tag! So it didn't find the {{reflist}} and decided to report that error.
Computers! But the good news is, it doesn't get much harder than that. Getting the references syntax right is probably the hardest programming-type stuff you have to do to edit articles (unless you want to put in tables, and there's help for that).
Happy Wiki'ing, and feel free to message me if you have any questions. And here's your first service award, below. You can use it to get started on your user page if you like. Cheers, Herostratus (talk) 13:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
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