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==On sources, and reusing refs== |
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Hi, thanks for your efforts to improve Wikipedia on its 20th birthday, quite a thing. |
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On sources, we generally don't rely on other encyclopedia-like websites (tertiary sources) which offer general definitions: those may be better than nothing, but really we like to use reliable secondary sources which are specialised to the kind of knowledge in a particular article: in a yoga article, that means yoga research or independent yoga websites. |
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I saw that you added sources to the lead (top) section in articles; this is usually not necessary, as long as the article's body (the main text) is properly cited, i.e. the lead is allowed to rely on the body's citations. |
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One small thing: if you want to reuse a citation, you don't have to define it all over again with identical copies. All you need to do is to name it the first time, and reuse the name part, like this: |
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<nowiki><ref name="AYLI 3.1">As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 1</ref> ......... text.<ref name="AYLI 3.1".></nowiki> |
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Note by the way that the final "." goes just before the ref! |
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What a lot of things to remember all at once. Good luck! [[User:Chiswick Chap|Chiswick Chap]] ([[User talk:Chiswick Chap|talk]]) 15:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC) |
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About this edit: Thanks! Also, in Wikipedia's jargon, we call those "links" rather than "citations". Happy editing, WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:37, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, how is your editing experience so far.LoveAll (talk). 10:59, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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On sources, and reusing refs
Hi, thanks for your efforts to improve Wikipedia on its 20th birthday, quite a thing.
On sources, we generally don't rely on other encyclopedia-like websites (tertiary sources) which offer general definitions: those may be better than nothing, but really we like to use reliable secondary sources which are specialised to the kind of knowledge in a particular article: in a yoga article, that means yoga research or independent yoga websites.
I saw that you added sources to the lead (top) section in articles; this is usually not necessary, as long as the article's body (the main text) is properly cited, i.e. the lead is allowed to rely on the body's citations.
One small thing: if you want to reuse a citation, you don't have to define it all over again with identical copies. All you need to do is to name it the first time, and reuse the name part, like this:
<ref name="AYLI 3.1">As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 1</ref> ......... text.<ref name="AYLI 3.1".>
Note by the way that the final "." goes just before the ref!
What a lot of things to remember all at once. Good luck! Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)