User talk:Krohde
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The references in my contribution have been reformatted, apparently by an editor. They seem to be alright in the edited text but are totally wrong when the contribution was saved, e..g.'1' should be Thorson and '2' should be Rohde and not Gusev. Krohde 06:33, 17 April 2006 (UTC)Krohde
- Please fix them. I was just putting the text in footnote format and the article in wikipedia normal form. Wikipedia articles don't normally have the format you wrote in which is more of a scholarly paper treatment format Now that you see how it works (how to link text to footnotes, etc.) make the requisite changes.
- Note that if you want to leave a messages regarding the article that will be seen, you should do so on its talk page rather than your own. Just click on the discussion tab at the top of the article in the future. The only reason I found your message was because I came to tell you on your talk page that you should give the article a short introductory passage stating in simple and general terms (as much as possible given the subject matter) what the rule describes. This is a format that has wide acceptance to give context to readers and is set forth and described at WP:LEAD--Fuhghettaboutit 12:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Multiple footnotes for a single reference
Hey Krohde. I have redone the footnotes to a different style so that multiple references are possible. It works like this: anywhere you want a footnote you place the reference right in the text; if you wanted a footnote right after this sentence you would write: <ref name="Author's name">text of reference (author name page numbers etc.)</ref>
The next time you need to site the same footnote, you would simply type:<ref name="same author's name">
- Close, but no cigar. For the second use of a previously defined reference, you need to use <ref name="same author's name"/>. (Note the closing "/>".) Lupo 10:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Then, under the footnotes section you simply write <references/>. What happens is that the references you wrote into the text don't appear in it, but propagate under the references section, and for ones that have multiple citations, they have letter designations for each separate place the footnote appears which look, after the footnote arrow, like this: a b.
So, for instance, the citation to your article from 1985 now appears only once in the references but has three (clickable) linking footnote designators, a b c , and is named in the hidden footnote markup, Krohde; your other articles from 1999 and 1993 that have footnotes are designated, respectively, Krohde2 and Krohde3, and should you wish to later add a footnote to the reference for Krohde2 somewhere else in the article, for example, you would simply type: <ref name="Krohde2">. I hope that's clear. --Fuhghettaboutit 23:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- <ref name="Krohde2"/> (closing "/>")... Lupo 10:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hello and welcome aboard; it's great to see a real expert contributing! Just a minor hint: when you create an article, it's not necessary to mention "No copyright infringement". That's the assumption (alas, all too often violated) around here. If your texts are available elsewhere online, it might be a good idea to clearly state on your user page who you are (your user name is a giveaway already) and that you hold the copyright to these texts to help avoid future confusions. If the texts are not available online, even that might not be necessary: if other people cannot find the texts online, there's only a vanishingly small chance that anyone might mistakenly think your contributions were infringing someone else's copyright. Lupo 10:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
