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Ah, so you're the Chinabot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.243.187.209 (talk) 05:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Would you explain this? I don't understand it
"Lightfoot" is not defined here; without the definition, the reference doesn't work and produces a visible referencing error
You're making the article harder to edit. Please stop collapsing references, at least mine. deisenbe (talk) 16:11, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- You must be asking about this edit? You added this code:
<ref name=Lightfoot/>
to the article. That should make a reference to a reference previously defined with the name "Lightfoot". But there's no reference tag with that name defined in the article, and so the article renders without the desired reference and with an error that says the reference isn't defined. My edits fix both of those problems. You can read more about referencing at Help:Reftags. - I find the expanded references much more difficult to edit, so I naturally collapsed them. If you don't like that, feel free to expand them again -- but please do not re-introduce referencing errors to the article because that's objectively a step backward. -- Mikeblas (talk) 16:18, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Artúr Görgei
Hi, thanks for your correction on the Görgei Artúr article. The book in case appeared in 1930 (http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/1848/konyv/p/bibJAT00367101.html). In the sources section was wrongly written 1934 instead of 1930, so the year 1930 in the article is correct. So I corrected the year in the Sorces section from 1934 to 1930.
Sylvain1975 (talk) 18:44, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Nomination of HTI Group for deletion
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Firestar464 (talk) 02:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Nomination of Idea (news agency) for deletion
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Gusfriend (talk) 08:43, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Beaver Lake 131
Hi there, at the risk of your entire talk page filling up with questions like this - what citation error have you corrected with this edit on the Beaver Lake 131 stub? It seems like you've just added a new source without it being referenced in the (scant) text of the article. James Hyett (talk) 00:03, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi there! There are different approaches to making refereneces in articles, and of those different approaches different ways to actually implemnet the references. Even though referencing is a fundamental feature of Wikipedia (a requirement, really!), referencing is byzantine and opaque and confusing. So I'm always happy to answer well-intended questions.
- In the previous version of that article, we can find this reference invocation:
{{sfn|Government of Alberta|2012|p=21}}
four different times. {{sfn}} is mean to make a footnote reference to a provided bibliographic reference. In this case, the "Government of Alberta" reference was never defined, which is an error -- the footonte is there, but it can't reference anything. That's an error, and places the article in the Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors error tracking category. - So, the fix is to just define that reference. The history of the article revealed that the {{sfn}} reference was added by User:James Hyett back in January of 2019. (Which means that this article was incorrectly referenced for more than three years!) Their edit summary says they copied some material from another article, and that article fortunately provided a reference of the same name so I copied it over. That reference definition satisfies the footnote invocations, and now there are on more errors and the article is correctly referenced.
- Hope that helps! -- Mikeblas (talk) 11:00, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oop! You're James Hyett! Sorry, I didn't realize that when I wrote my response. -- Mikeblas (talk) 11:04, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Brilliant, thank you! Yeah, definitely a result of me copying the infobox over without realising what the sfn template was all about. Thanks! James Hyett (talk) 16:25, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
... FYI, I did not "introduce" this "error", the article creator did.--NortyNort (Holla) 00:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC)