To write an email with links you've created, do the following:
Example:
Steve, I was just looking at [https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=128980148&authType=name&authToken=LyAY&trk=mp-allpost-aut-name&_mSplash=1 your LinkedIn profile] * and I have a couple of question.... Looking at the list of [[Air Force Specialty Code | Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC)]] article at Wikipedia, they say that the AFSC code for Flight Engineer is [/info/en/?search=Air_Force_Specialty_Code#Operations 1A1x1]. [http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob2a5x1.htm Another site] says that the AFSC code for [http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob2a5x1.htm Crew Chief] is [/info/en/?search=Air_Force_Specialty_Code#Maintenance/Logistics 2A5x1]. I assume a crew chief would also have a high skill level (the penultimate digit “x” in the AFSC, which can range from 1 to 9). I've always been impressed by the amount of [http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob1a1x1.htm knowledge] (of all the subsystems onboard a military aircraft) it takes to become a Flight Engineer (FE) ... Mike
(Note: If this doesn't work, you may have to have to paste the formatted text into the Notes app (after step 3), then copy it from the Notes app and paste it into the email you're writing.)
Steve,
I was just looking at your LinkedIn profile * and I have a couple of question.... Looking at the list of Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) article at Wikipedia, they say that the AFSC code for Flight Engineer is 1A1x1. Another site says that the AFSC code for Crew Chief is 2A5x1. I assume a crew chief would also have a high skill level (the penultimate digit “x” in the AFSC, which can range from 1 to 9).
I've always been impressed by the amount of knowledge (of all the subsystems onboard a military aircraft) it takes to become a Flight Engineer (FE) ...
Mike
To search for an exact phrase, set of words in a particular order, or abbreviation, bracket the words with two "/" forward slashes.
For example:
To sign your name, in a talk page, just type in 4 “~” tildes, which appears as " Mlg666666 ( talk) 10:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC) "
To sign your name with just your user name, type "[[User:mlg666666|mlg666666]]", which appears as " mlg666666".
To sign your name with a link to your "talk" page, type "[[User talk:mlg666666|talk]]", which appears as " talk".
To sign your name with a link to your "contributions" page, type "[[User talk:mlg666666|talk]]", which appears as " talk".
For example:
There's also a link, at the web archive, for retrieving "Dead Links."
WHO CIA
Go to A Quick Guide to Inserting Geographical Coordinates, and Many Templates to Easily Do This to read how.
{{Infobox frazione | name = NAME OF PLACE | native_name = | image_skyline = | image_caption = | latd =40 | latm =44 | lats =43 | latNS =N | longd =15 | longm =14 | longs =8 | longEW =E | coordinates_type = | coordinates_display = inline, title }} <font color="#666666">}}</font>
{{ | name = NAME OF PLACE | native_name = | image_skyline = | image_caption = | latd =40 | latm =44 | lats =43 | latNS =N | longd =15 | longm =14 | longs =8 | longEW =E | coordinates_type = | coordinates_display = inline, title }}
To automatically convert a number from one unit of measurement to another unit of measurement type:
{{Convert|62|mm|in}}
First enter a number, then enter the unit you are converting from, then enter the unit you are converting to. This will then appear like this:
a2+b2=c2
To get TV screen Height (H) from its Diagonal (D) measurement:
Go to
Displaying a Formula for ways to do this.
To insert a dash, instead of typing "--", type this where you want the dash: "& mdash;" between the words (with NO SPACES BETWEEN THE "&" and "mdash;").
The troops & mdash; now exhausted and out of supplies & mdash; went to sleep.
The troops — now exhausted and out of supplies — went to sleep.
To italicize text put two apostrophes “''” before and after the text to be italicized.
To indent, put a colon “:” (one for each indent) before the text to be indented:
::no indent (normal) :::First indent ::::Second indent :::::Third indent ::::::Fourth indent
no indent (normal)
To have an arrow point back to the left margin type 2 of these curly brackets "{", then "Outdent", then a pipe "|", then the number "4" (4 for back from 4 indents), then 2 of these curly brackets "}".
no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent ::::fourth indent {{Outdent|4}} return to left margin
no indent (normal)
return to left margin
To make a bullet list put an asterisk * before each item. To make a bulleted sublist put two asterisks before the item. Use three * to go one further, etc., etc.
* One * Two * Three ** Subsection One ** Subsection Two ** Subsection Three
To create a numbered list you do exactly the same as with a bulleted list (above), but instead of asterisks, you use # signs.
# One # Two # Three
To insert an image (which must already be in Wikipedia Commons), type double-brackets, "File:", the image name, ".jpg", a pipe "|", "thumb", a pipe "|", "right" (or "center" or "left"), a pipe "|", then a caption for the image".
[[File:Uss Wisconsin.jpg|thumb|center|Me on the USS Wisconsin in May 2013]]
,To upload an image to Wikipedia Commons, go to Introduction to Uploading Images.'
To find an image in Wikepdia Commons go to Wikipedia Commons where images are sorted by category.
An excellent site for the most common editing features can be found at Help:Cheatsheet.
To create a link and label it, so that the label is different than the full article's name, just type, within double brackets, the Wikipedia article name, then a pip "|", then a label for it.
[[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Army]]
It would then appear like this:
FOR A LOT OF TEMPLATES FOR CITATIONS !!!, go to Wikipedia's page “CITATION TEMPLATES”. THERE ARE CITATIONS FOR ALL KINDS OF SOURCES!!!!! Go to: Citation Templates at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Citation_templates Templates===
FOR A LOT OF TEMPLATES FOR CITATIONS !!!, go to Wikipedia's page “CITATION TEMPLATES”. THERE ARE CITATIONS FOR ALL KINDS OF SOURCES!!!!! Go to:
Citation Templates at
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Citation_templates
To insert a link to a sub-section of a Wikipedia article, type within double brackets "[[ ]]" the article name, a #, its sub-section title, a pipe |, and then a display name for the link.
For example, to create a link to the "Design" sub-section of the article "Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor", type:
[[Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor#Design|Design]].
It will appear like this:
However, you do not have to use the exact title of the section after the pipe. That part is after all just a label and it can be called anything. For example you could label the "Design" section of the article on the F-22 "The F-22's blueprints." To do so you would type it out like this:
[[Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor#Design|The F-22's blueprints]]
It will appear like this:
To link to a section or subsection in the same page, you can use: "#section name|displayed text" (within double-brackets). For,example, to link to this section in this page entitled "Mathematical Text" on this page type "#Mathematical Text|mathetmatical text" (within double-brackets).
It would appear like this:
To create a link and label it, so that the web address does not appear and just the label does, type, within brackets, the website's address, then a space, then a label for it.
For example, to create a link to the website about the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (at http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app2/q-9.html), but have it appear with the label "The Predator" you would type it out like this:
[http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app2/q-9.html The Predator]
It would then appear like this:
Links to long PDF documents can be made more convenient by taking readers to a specific page with the addition of #page=n
to the document URL, where n
is the page number. For example, using http://www.domain.com/document.pdf#page=5
as the citation URL displays page five of the document in any PDF viewer that supports this feature; otherwise, it goes to the first page.
Note that this functionality depends on support from the web browser's PDF viewer. In some cases, the browser may ignore the PDF page specification and display the first page instead.
<ref name="Name of footnote">
[/info/en/?search=McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Strike_ Eagle#Specifications_.28F-15E.29 F-15 Specifications], This is a footnote which will be cited several times again in the text.
</ref>
<ref name="F15 footnote">[/info/en/?search=McDonnell_Douglas_ F-15E_Strike_Eagle#Specifications_.28F-15E.29 F-15 Specifications], This is a website about the F-15.</ref>
<ref name="F-15 footnote"/>
::1. ^a b c d F-15 Specifications, This is a website about the F-15.
"This is the first time I use this footnote." [1]"
"This is the second time I use this footnote." [1] , and clicking on the footnote number will take you to the same footnote as before. (Under footnotes it will be labelled "b"
"This is the third time I use this footnote." [1] , and clicking on the footnote number will take you to the same footnote as before. (Under footnotes it will be labelled "c"
"This is the fourth time I use this footnote." [1] , and clicking on the footnote number will take you to the same footnote as before. (Under footnotes it will be labelled "d"
Make sure you put two apostrophes on either side of the title (to generate italics), rather than quotation marks.
<ref>Charmley, John (2006). ''The Princess and the Politicians'', p. 60. Penguin Books, London. ISBN 0140289712.</ref>
Plunkett, John. "Sorrell accuses Murdoch of panic buying", The Guardian, London, 27 October 2005.
<ref>Plunkett, John. "Sorrell accuses Murdoch of panic buying", ''[[The Guardian]]'', London, 27 October 2005.</ref>
Andersen, David; Witter, Lameen (17 February 2006). "Former Marine, Go Daddy CEO Talks About His Rise to Success". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
<ref>Andersen, David; Witter, Lameen (17 February 2006). "Former Marine, Go Daddy CEO Talks About His Rise to Success". [http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/ Marine Corps Times]. Retrieved 6 June 2006.</ref>
[http://www.nytimes.com ''The New York Times'']
<ref>Crowther, Bosley (5 June 1953). [http://www.nytimes.com/http://www.nytimes.com /1953/06/05/movies/83724408.html “‘Julius Caesar’ and Two Other Arrivals; Shakespeare Tragedy, Filmed by M-G-M With a Notable Cast, Unfolds at Booth”]. [http://www.nytimes.com ''The New York Times'']. Retrieved 27 February 2015.</ref>
RefToolbar, which appears atop the edit box in browsers that support JavaScript, contains useful tools for editing Wikipedia articles. RefToolbar can be used to easily add properly formatted citations without having to learn how to use the {{ Cite}} templates. If your browser does not support JavaScript or it is disabled, refToolbars will not work (see Template:Cite for what to type-in manually).
Click on the play button on the image to the right to view a refToolbar 2.0b video tutorial on how to use the citation dialog. Instructions on using the citation dialog are also included below:
==References==
section — place it directly after the text that your citation will be verifying.If the article did not have any visible references before you started, check to make sure that there is a "References" section towards the end of the article. If not, add the following to the end of the article (See Inserting a reference, below):
==References== {{reflist}}
A) My Test Footnotes For a NEWSPAPER Citation, using the refToolBar, AND labeling links, i.e., the web address won't appear itself, but the label will, fill in all the usual forms. But when you get to the Publisher form do the following:
{{
cite news}}
: External link in |publisher=
(
help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher=
(
help)
B) My Test Footnotes For a BOOK Citation (Using the ISBN – with a Reference Title and a Reference Name in those fields – in the refToolBar):
Note: When the footnote has a Reference Group Name it doesn't appear to show up in the footnote section.
C) My Test Footnotes For a BOOK Citation (Using just the ISBN in the refToolBar):
When your edit is saved, the text of citations within the body of the article will automatically appear in the References section. References added using the refToolbar can still be edited manually after they are added; details on how to manually create or edit references are discussed in the Manual Referencing section, later in this tutorial.
The refToolbar method can also be used to conveniently build correct citations for a "Further reading" or "Bibliography" section of an article, which do not use numbered superscripts. Use the refToolbar as described above, and insert the citation. Then, manually edit the newly-inserted Wikisource text to remove the <ref> and </ref> tags, to prevent the unwanted appearance of numbered superscripts.
If you prefer to use VisualEditor, you can use that to add the references. The video to the right demonstrates how to use VisualEditor to add a citation template, which formats your references for you. You can also insert a plain-text citation using this method.
Position your cursor after the sentence or paragraph that the citation is intended to support. Click the "Reference" icon in the VisualEditor toolbar. A dialog will appear, with a text box in which you can either insert a plain citation or a citation template. If you want to insert a template, click the puzzle piece icon to bring up the templates dialog. Type "Cite" into the template text box, and a number of suggestions will be provided. Choose the appropriate template, and add as many parameters as you can easily fill.
Wikipedia allows editors to use any citation system that allows the reader to understand from where the information came. Common choices include footnotes, parenthetical references, and inline URLs. This page will show you how to use the footnotes approach:
The first thing you do is to make sure there is a section where the footnotes will appear. It may already exist: look for a section that contains either the <references />
tag or, if you want to use more complex formatting, the {{
reflist}}
reference template. This section goes toward the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section, and is usually titled "References". Enter this code:
==References== {{Reflist}}
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. The code goes at the end of the relevant phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers (after any punctuation, and without a space before the beginning of the <ref>
tag).
<ref> </ref>
Whatever text, formatting, or templates you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "References" section as your reference. Do not place content in <ref>
</ref>
tags after the <references />
tag or {{
reflist}}
template — they belong in the body of the article where you want the link to the footnote to appear.
Open the edit box for
(Windows: Ctrl+Click; Mac: Cmd+Click), copy the following text (inserting your own text where indicated), paste it at the bottom of the page, and save the page:==Reference test== This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference.<ref>Reference details go here</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}}
(End of text to copy and paste.)
Note the position of the reference after the full stop; see also WP:REFPUNC. When you save the page, you should see this on your screen:
;Reference test
This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference.[1]
;References
1. ^Reference details go here
You can also use the Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits like this.
You need to include sufficient information to enable readers to find your source. For an online newspaper source, it might look like this:
<ref>Plunkett, John. [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1601858,00.html "Sorrell accuses Murdoch of panic buying"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', London, 27 October 2005. Retrieved on 27 October 2005.</ref>
When uploaded, it appears as:
Note the single square brackets around the URL and the article title. The format is:
[http://URL "Title of article"]
Make sure there is a space between the URL and the Title. This code results in the URL being hidden and the title showing as a link. Use double apostrophes on either side of the name of the newspaper (to generate italics) and quotation marks around the article title.
Double square brackets around the name of the newspaper create an internal link (a wikilink) to the Wikipedia article (if any) about the newspaper - not really necessary for a well-known paper. If such brackets are used, the apostrophes must go outside the brackets.
The date after The Guardian is the date the newspaper article was originally published—this is required information—and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the website, which is not essential but can be useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead.
It is best to include the place of publication if it is not already part of the newspaper's name. This avoids possible confusion with other newspapers of the same name. In the example, there are other newspapers called The Guardian published in cities of the world other than London.
Optionally, you may prefer to use a citation template to compile the details of the source. The template is placed between the ref tags, and you fill out the fields that you want to include. Such templates automatically format punctuation and other markup such as italics and quotation marks.
Basic citation templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference.
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name inside the first <ref>
code (such as the author or article title):
<ref name="smith">DETAILS OF REFERENCE</ref>
Subsequent times that you cite the same reference in the article, you can use this shortcut instead of re-typing it (which adds a /):
<ref name="smith" />
You can then use that shortcut as many times as you want, but never forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the section.
Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules:
":31337"
(which is punctuation plus a number), but it will ignore "31337"
(purely numeric)."Nguyen 2010"
are preferred to names like ":31337"
.":0"
or "NYT"
.A–Z
, a–z
, digits 0–9
, and the symbols !$%&()*,-.:;<@[]^_`{|}~
. That is, all printable ASCII characters except #"'/=<>?\
and space.name="John Smith"
. But quote-enclosed reference names may not include a less-than sign (<
) or a double straight quote symbol ("
), which may however be included by
escaping as <
and "
respectively."
); curly or other quotes will be parsed as part of the reference name.For an example article where there are three sources, and they are each referenced three times, see William Bowyer (artist). For more details see WP:REFNAME.
The above method is simple and combines references and notes into one section. A refinement is to put the full details of the references in their own section headed "References", while the notes which apply to them appear in a separate section headed "Notes". The notes can be inserted in the main article text in an abbreviated form as seen in this version of the article Harriet Arbuthnot or in a full form as in this version of the article Brown Dog affair. The separation of "Notes" and "References" in this way is in line with scholarly works.
Cite error: There are <ref group=Great Books>
tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=Great Books}}
template (see the
help page).