User talk:Brookfield

Hello, Brookfield! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! LittleOldMe (talk) 14:46, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply] Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Adoption offer

I just thought I would drop in and see if you're still looking to be adopted, I'm pretty active and hopefully should be answer any questions (or find the answers to the ones I can't). Let me know on my talk page if you're interested. By the way, I had a look at the Glenn Miller article and re-added the reference section. However, we could probably do some work on it to convert all those bare references and in-line citations. Would be a good first project. xenocidic (talk) 03:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Glenn Miller

Ok, I deleted the internal link from the reference. It wasn't a proper form for reference anyways.

One thing we can think about doing to improve the Glenn Miller article is using proper citation templates. The first time a book is cited, it should use the following form:

Cite book

<ref>{{cite book
|last=
|first=
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|editor=
|others=
|title=
|origdate=
|origyear=
|origmonth=
|url=
|format=
|accessdate=
|accessyear=
|accessmonth=
|edition=
|series=
|volume=
|date=
|year=
|month=
|publisher=
|location=
|language=
|isbn=
|oclc=
|doi=
|id=
|pages=
|chapter=
|chapterurl=
|quote=
|ref=
}}</ref>

Indeed you don't have to use every field, but the most important ones (like author, title, etc.) should be filled in.

The next time the book is cited, the form being used now is fine (<ref>Smith, 191</ref>).

As for URL citations, here is the proper cite template:

Cite web

<ref>{{cite web
|url= 
|title= 
|accessdate= 
|accessdaymonth= 
|accessmonthday= 
|accessyear= 
|author= 
|last= 
|first= 
|authorlink= 
|coauthors= 
|date= 
|year= 
|month= 
|format= 
|work= 
|publisher= 
|pages= 
|language= 
|doi= 
|archiveurl= 
|archivedate= 
|quote= 
}}</ref>

I typically include at least the url, title, date, acccessdate, and it would be a good idea to include the author, and publisher if applicable.

Here's a handy tip for citing the same website multiple times in the article. If the first time you cite it, you use the format <ref name=insertdescription>{{cite web...}}</ref>, the next time you cite the same article, you can just type <ref name=insertdescription/>.

If you have any questions on the above, or would rather work on something else, just let me know. xenocidic (talk) 13:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

classroom portion of your adoption now available!

Greetings and salutations, diligent adoptee! I just wanted to let you know that an optional classroom portion of your adoption is now available at User:Xenocidic/wikiadopt. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions regarding this. Again, these lessons and assignments are completely optional, but may help you with your wiki-travels. –xeno (talk) 16:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jack Twomey concern

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jack Twomey

Hello Brookfield. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Jack Twomey".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]