Talk:Unidentified flying object/Mary Ash

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I managed to finally finish writing the article. Please be gentle when editing and wikifying it. I will do what I can but your help would be most greatly appreciated.

Mary Ash 01:56, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Mary Ash

You definitely have some formatting issues! haha. Did you see what Milton did to fix them last time? Try practicing it and let me know if you get stuck and I'll see if I can help, though I am not an expert on reference formatting!! D. Matt Innis 03:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I did try copy and paste but that made things worse. As Milton helping earlier I guess it was appreciated. It would have been better though if he tried after I finished writing the article.

Thanks!

Mary Ash 04:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Mary Ash

Mary, I wasn't born knowing how to format references in the <ref></ref> method. Nor was I even aware of how to do it when I first encountered the Wiki markup language. What I did, was spend about a week reading wiki help articles and especially those that explained how to use the <ref></ref> method. I did that before I first ventured to start writing Wiki articles or making minor revisions in existing articles. Of course, I needed help along the way and I took heed of what people told me instead of deciding that I knew it all and did not need their help. When anyone corrected my errors, I did not delete the corrections and go back to my original incorrect methods. Instead, I accepted their corrections and tried to learn from my mistakes. Milton Beychok 05:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I did use the/

Haha! Hi Mary, when you use a wiki command (or whatever you call it) on the talk page, you have to use the "nowiki" stuff. If you look on the edit page it will look like this: <ref> (look at this in edit mode).

I did use commands

I did use the above listed commands to my message to you and the page came out looking very strange. I omitted them.

Okay, since this is mature site, where people act like adults, are you planning to help or not? I politely requested assistance after I was done writing the article, which I tried to do numerous times, and kept getting written over. Now, I could use your help. The article is done. Feel free to copy and paste this into the main article, edit it, etc. I have done a fairly good job trying to state the facts. I thought Citizendium was about cooperation and collaboration designed for encouraging adult behavior. The question is are you planning to collaborate?

Mary Ash 15:56, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Mary Ash

so your comment above was really:

::::I did use the/<ref> in the article. I thought you wanted something different. I also used <blockquote> to format the article.
~~~~Mary Ash

Also, you shouldn't have to sign your name after the four squiggles :-)

You should've seen when I was learning on wikipedia, if I didn't get some very patient help from a really nice guy (who happened to hold the opposite POV than me), I would never had been able to edit anything. I think we enjoyed the intellectual debate as much as the writing itself. I'm still not really good at the ref stuff. I usually let other people do that part, so I don't get much practice. I also use the Diberris reference maker. I'm not sure if that is the latest toy or not, but it is a start.

D. Matt Innis 11:42, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

PS. Something is still very wrong with the formatting of you references, haha! Take Milt's advice above and I bet you'll figure it out and when you do, tell me what it was. D. Matt Innis 11:49, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

One important feature: any reference has to start with <ref> and to end with </ref> , and pieces of code like to start with </ have to be removed. --Peter Schmitt 12:14, 24 July 2010 (UTC)