User talk:Randycoll

Hey what's up boy! Good to be talking on your page-TedseamansTedseamans (talk) 20:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Citation URLs

Hi Randycoll. I noticed that in your recent edit to The Revenger's Tragedy you included a citation (good) that points to http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=a148afed-a044-4245-9fd3-4c9ea8db82cf%2540sessionmgr113&hid=126, whose title is "USF NetID Single-SignOn | University of South Florida" and lists its publisher (website) as "eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu". That URL is not only internal to U of South Florida (won't work for anyone else), but it looks like it's even unique to your login session when you copied it; and the title and website are clearly nonsense for a citation. Instead you should be filling in the proper title, publisher, etc. of whatever work you're citing and then find a DOI and ISSN (for journals) or ISBN (for books). The citation template has specific fields for a lot of identifiers and generates nice links for you in the formatted citation. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance with this.

PS. If there's some gotcha in the way U of South Florida's journal access is set up when combined with Wikipedia's toolset that would make it likely that your fellow students would fall in the same trap, please consider letting them know about this issue. The resulting citations with internal URLs and no title or publisher info are useless for everyone else, so it's actually quite important to get this right. --Xover (talk) 05:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC)