User talk:Profspeak
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your comment at Talk:Suicide of Tyler Clementi. Please feel free to get in touch with me any time if you have any questions at all about editing here. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:19, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Fine Writer
Thank you
Thank you for changing your edits on the Tyler Clementi page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASuicide_of_Tyler_Clementi&diff=487318227&oldid=487286733 I must confess that I am tired of being accused of bias, and in this case I made great efforts to just take exactly what was presented in the reliable sources. If I didn't succeed, I'm happy to see different summaries.LedRush (talk) 12:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits
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How to Cite Sources
Example:
{{Cite news |work=Star-Ledger |date=April 20, 2011 |author=Star-Ledger Staff |title=Grand jury hands up 15-count indictment against roommate of Tyler Clementi | |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/grand_jury_hands_down_15-count.html |accesdate=May 8,2012}} shows as
Star-Ledger Staff (April 20, 2011). "Grand jury hands up 15-count indictment against roommate of Tyler Clementi". Star-Ledger. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |accesdate= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia's accuracy and readability. --Javaweb (talk) 14:59, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb
Citations
Regarding your questions on citation formats, you can find much of what you need here
Also, as a quick way to do this, you can just look elsewhere in the article for a citation that looks good, and then copy and paste it to where you want it to be, filling in the information for the article you want to cite. Tryptofish is much better at this than I, so he might have better suggestions.LedRush (talk) 15:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- (Be still my beating heart!) Anyway, the citation template you are looking for is Template:Cite news. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Now I remember what I have done for other articles. I clicked on "Cite" on the Talk page, filled in the template that pops up, copied it on a "temporary" Talk item, and then pasted it on the edit page. It would be easier if there were a template in the toolbar on the edit page also. Profspeak (talk) 01:12, 10 May 2012 (UTC)