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before the question. Again, welcome! Protonk (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Tables
You've probably seen this, but take a look at Help:Table. It's fairly comprehensive. I don't know if there exists a complete specification. Protonk (talk) 16:55, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Reference templates
Take a look at {{cite web}} for websites, and {{cite journal}} for journal articles. Each of these should have drop down menus in wiki-ed, if not in the standard interface. Their formatting is standardized for the most part, but there are minor differences so if you don't use the drop down menu take a look at the documentation (you can click on that template link to get there). For instance:
- Horspool, R. Nigel (1980). "Practical Fast Searching in Strings". Software Practice and Experience 10: 501-506. doi:10.1145/359842.359859.
Hit the edit button to see the template source. Protonk (talk) 21:25, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Table code
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia.
I've been asked by user:Protonk to have a quick look over the tables that you're working on in your userspace. I've done a little tidying of the code and the presentation of the section in question, and I've put it in a new page entitled User:RMcPhillip/tables. I hope you don't mind the intrusion! If you have any questions you can either leave a note here or on my talk page and I'll be happy to help out. Happy editing! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 21:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)