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Like an Angel Passing Through My Room

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Can you please explain why you reverted edits removing redlinks from Abba articles? / edgarde 20:52, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

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WP:MOS

Don't replace the proper and with the improper &. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 04:14, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:EUMOS, WP:ENGVAR, WP:MOSDATE and WP:&

Hello, you seem to be unfamiliar with several of Wikipedia's polices, let me explain a few to you. Do not replace "and" with "&", this is less formal and messy; see WP:& for details. Also do not change the regional variation of English regarding spellings, grammar and dates. It is Wikipedia policy to use the British-Irish variant of English for EU/ European related articles; see WP:EUMOS, WP:ENGVAR and WP:MOSDATE for details. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Regards IJA (talk) 07:12, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Isn't Wasn't Ain't

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WP:BADCHARTS

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Ampersands and numbers.

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License tagging for File:Chosen Ones (ApologetiX album).jpg

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Capitalization on So Good Together

see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)#Composition titles. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 19:40, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Some tips to help you out!

Hi Kissoffire, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Kissoffire/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 07:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Kissoffire/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Something to make your life easier!

Hi there Kissoffire! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you might appreciate some help with references.

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