User talk:Mtattrain

On 2 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Accessibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that only about a quarter of New York City's 472 subway stations had elevators in 2018, among the lowest accessibility rates of the world's major transit systems? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Accessibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Accessibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Epicgenius (talk) 16:08, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

I forgot to mention you as a co-nominator for this page, so here's a Did You Know credit. Epicgenius (talk) 16:08, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and in particular for adding references, as you did to New York City Subway rolling stock! However, adding a bare URL is not ideal, and exposes the reference to link rot. It is preferable to use proper citation templates when citing sources, including details such as title, author, date, and any other information necessary for a bibliographic citation. Here's an example of a full citation using the {{cite web}} template to cite a web page:

Lorem ipsum<ref>{{cite web |title=Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac |publisher=Canon Inc |work=Ask a Question |date=2022 |url=https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART174839 |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> dolor sit amet.

which displays inline in the running text of the article as:

Lorem ipsum^[1] dolor sit amet.

and displays under References as:

1. ^ Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac". Ask a Question. Canon Inc. 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

If you've already added one or more bare URLs to an article, there are tools available to expand them into full citations: try the Citer tool, or in the wikitext editor, try the reFill tool, and in the Visual Editor, the reference dialog can convert some bare urls into a full citation. Once again, thanks for adding references to articles. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 07:03, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to my reversions of unsourced changes - the policy being applied is universal across Wikipedia, that being WP:V - additions or changes must be sourced with reliable sources. Why am I reverting that page? Because it shows up on my watchlist, that's it. I don't remember why it ended up on my watchlist, but it's there. That same standard of sourcing should (indeed must) be applied to all Wikipedia articles - it shouldn't be that sources are being added only because I'm reverting unsourced edits... it's policy that the sources are added. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:52, 25 November 2025 (UTC)