User talk:Dewelar

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[edit] Updates to Dan Fogelberg

Thank you for your recent additions to Dan Fogelberg. I noticed a couple of the songs you added had chart positions that were in the 41-100 range. I added the original chart but my information source only included songs that made it to the Top 40, and it's quite possible he had other songs released before 1985 that made it to the Hot 100 but never made it as high as the Top 40. If you have information on these songs and could add them, it would be great addition to the article. (Also, he did a cover of Rhythm of the Rain somewhere around 1990 that got enough airplay that I'd be surprised if it didn't chart.) --Mwalimu59 (talk) 00:41, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed references section to wiki guidelines

Howdy,

You said: "Fixed references section to wiki guidelines"

According to these "Wiki guidelines":

This is not how you format a reference.

<ref>http://www.allearsnet.com/tp/ep/okilter.htm All Ears Net's Off Kilter Page</ref>,

Also:

Place <:references/> or {{reflist}} in an otherwise empty "Notes" or "References" section near the end of the article—the list of notes will be automatically generated here.

[edit] Ref tags and punctuation

Material may be referenced mid-sentence, but footnotes are usually placed at the end of a sentence or paragraph. Footnotes at the end of a sentence or phrase are normally placed immediately after the punctuation, except for dashes, as recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style and other style guides.[3][4] Some editors prefer the in-house style of journals such as Nature, which place references before punctuation. If an article has evolved using predominantly one style of ref tag placement, the whole article should conform to that style unless there is a consensus to change it.

Recommended section names to use for footnotes in Wikipedia are:

   * ==Notes==
   * ==Footnotes==
   * ==References==

So, changing "References" to "Notes" and {{reflist}} to <references/> is NOT "Fixing references section to wiki guidelines". It is just make work and it is not accurate for what you are doing.

Please read: Wikipedia:Citing sources before spouting "Wiki guidelines".

Thanks,

IP4240207xx (talk) 07:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)