User talk:Avisron
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[edit] Coding
Do you need any help on using the coding, buddy? I see it's on your profile and also I reverted one of your edits to Kurt Cobain as you had put <ref><ref> completely out of the blue! Just message me if you need any help, friend, and I will try and get round to helping you out. ScarianTalk 21:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
- No worries, happy to help. Right, what do you need help with first? Citing a website is pretty easy - you already got the first bit <ref></ref>. Those, obviously, are citation tags. You stick a web address in between those after a piece of text and it becomes a citation. Say if I said, "Grass is green" [1], that would be my proof saying grass is green. Remember, you must have a forward slash in the closing tag, this tells Wikipedia to end the coding.
- Do you know how to inter-link pages? Basically it is two of these brackets [ (Can't remember their name) around each side. So if I wanted to direct you to Cheese on Wikipedia I'd put two of those brackets around it [[Cheese]]. But, if I wanted to interlink a word, but didn't want you to send you to the word (If that makes sense)... I would put [[England|Cheese]] becomes Cheese. This time, clicking on cheese would send you to England. The difference in that is the | line thing... I seperated the link I wanted you to go to from the word.
- If you click on 'Edit this page', you would notice that around some of the blank tags I have put <nowiki> - that is the tag which stops Wikipedia from recognising the coding so I can show it to you. Now, warnings... there are dozens of different warnings in Wikipedia, it's like they just love antagonising vandal I.P.'s... I, personally, cannot only remember a couple, but they are characterised by the { bracket... (Can't remember its name either but it's the squiggely one). So for example, the only one I know - <nowiki>{{vandal1}} - the squiggely bracket signifies it's a template. So the [ bracket's are links. And the squiggely ones { are for warnings and barnstars etc.
- Another highly used coding of mine is [citation needed]. For example, "Grass is green" {{fact}} - because I don't have a citation for that statement I would stick a [citation needed] tag on the end of it. This alert's users that the statement needs a reference in order to be verified.
- Another favourite of mine is the [who?] tag... If for example someone said, "Nirvana is the greatest band in the world" I would stick {{weasel-word}} on it, because, despite being true, it stills needs verification.
- Basically, they will become second nature to you... you will begin remembering the codes the longer you use them. I was always looking up certain codes because I couldn't remember them and lots of veteran users still do.
- Here is a list of Wikipedia sites that have coding help on them if you need it; WP:CIT - How to cite, WP:WARN - Vandal warning, and WP:TC - General clean up.
- This site here is a basic overview of all the template messages you can use - if you're looking for a specific code just look around in there and see if you can find it.[1]
- Hopefully I have been of some assistance and I hope I haven't been doing things you already knew about! If you need any more specific help don't hesitate to contact me. All the best. ScarianTalk 05:41, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
No worries, my friend. If you need any other help sometime, don't hesitate to ask. :-) ScarianTalk 05:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reference example
[edit] RE: Sprint/NEXTEL Cup
Hey, no worries, it's not a problem. It's actually happened a lot lately but in month it can all be changed. Sorry if I came off a little harsh, at all. Thanks! Caster23 talk contribs 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
