User talk:General Nikos

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[edit] Quick guide to referencing

Here's a quick crash-course in adding references. In the article body, you would have something like the following:

References can be simple.<ref>Simple reference, http://example.com</ref>

You can name references...<ref name="repeatedref">Reference that crops up twice in the text, http://example.org</ref>

...and then refer to the name to re-use them.<ref name="repeatedref"/>

Then at the end you would have a References section, which might be done as:

==References==
{{reflist}}

or, to use normal-sized font:

==Footnotes==
<references />

or, to add some "generic" references that aren't referred to in the text (I find it's usually better to refer to them in the text, though, that way you can easily mark each item you're sourcing):

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{refbegin}}
* Generic reference #1
* Generic reference #2
{{refend}}

Some project pages of relevance: WP:FOOT, WP:REF, WP:CITET. A random example from my watchlist of an article that uses plenty of references: Billy Graham

Hope that helps you out! --tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 07:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brittney's name

It's wasn't me who change it--Hailey 18:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)