User talk:Stewartnbl

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Your submission at Articles for creation (March 10)

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, User:Stewartnbl/sandbox

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Rankersbo (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Jock Campbell

Any hope of you being able to provide a citation for the quotation about Camis Eskan? How were you able to give a verbatim quote? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:58, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

John,

I don't know if this is the correct place in which to answer your query about my updating of the article in Wikipedia on Jock Campbell. Please forgive me if I am wrong.

Immediately after he was awarded a peerage there was a small article about him in the Helensburgh and Gareloch Times, one of our two local newspapers at that time. What I have put in quotation marks was also in quotation marks in this article, and so I can only assume that these were his actual words when the local journalist phoned him. I have copied the article and could send it to you if you can give me an email address.

I hope that helps! StewartnblStewartnbl (talk) 16:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is fine. When I ask a question on your talk page, I put a seven-day watch on it since expected you to reply to questions directly below, as most people do. If you really wanted my attention, you might use the 'reply to' or 'ping' template (see {{rto}} and {{ping}}), but you would only need to do that if you suspected that my 'watch' had worn off.

There is no need to send me the article, all that is really needed is the date published so that someone in the future can find it easily. Any other metadata is a bonus extra.

If you fancy doing it yourself, then the template to use is template:Cite news. It would look something like this:

{{cite news |title= Baron Campbell of Eskan, of Camis Eskan in the County of Dumbarton | newspaper=Helensburgh and Gareloch Times |first=Robert |last=Bruce | date=15 January 1966 |page=3 |url=https://nls.org.uk/newsarchive/Helensburgh_and_Gareloch_Times/19660115}}

which produces

Bruce, Robert (15 January 1966). "Baron Campbell of Eskan, of Camis Eskan in the County of Dumbarton". Helensburgh and Gareloch Times. p. 3.

Replace Robert the Bruce with the actual reporter's name (if given), correct the date, and Bob's your uncle. (I have no idea if the National Library of Scotland has digitised archives of old newspapers, I'll be amazed if it does, I only put a web address (URL) in so you can see what a modern news citation looks like. Please don't waste your time searching.) If you really want to be flash, you can add "volume=" and/or "issue=" but only the real purists go that far. I never have.

Finally you need to surround it with < ref > and < /ref > tags (without the spaces) and you have your citation.

Have fun! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]