Talk:Serial extraction

hi wikipedians i know this article does not provide any references for now but i will try to take out some time to put them soon. would like to know ur opinions regarding the text. any editing on ur part is always welcome.help with references and inline citations will be highly appreciated. thank u all for making me feel welcomed.Dr.neha sharma (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you would prefer, we could move this out of the mainspace and into a sandbox, for you to work on at your leisure. I'd understood you wanted it moved to the mainspace, or of course I would not have done so. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:28, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references does not need to be very complicated. If you want, you can do the same thing that you did when you wrote research papers in school. The goal is simply to let people know where your information came from. The English Wikipedia is particularly fond of

WP:Footnotes (also called "ref tags"; it's those little blue numbers inside square brackets). But you can use any style that you want. Anything is better than nothing. WhatamIdoing (talk) 11:59, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Getting those

WP:General references

into the article is a major improvement. I turned your last two into full bibliographic citations for you, because bare URLs have a nasty way of stopping working after a while, and then nobody can figure out what the sources were.

Would you like to convert these to inline citations? There are two common ways to do that. One is using

WP:Parenthetical citations

, which is super easy: you just type (Graber 1996) at the end of any sentence or paragraph whose content is supported by the first Graber source, and so forth.

The other, more popular way is with the clickable blue footnotes, which we can do with

list-defined references, since we've already got a list of the references. This requires a bit of set up on the front end (to "name" all the references and tell the software we're using that system), but then all you do is type <ref name=Whatever /> at the end of the sentence or paragraph, and you'll have those little clickable numbers (like this:^[1]). If you want that, then I can do the set up for you; it would only take me a few minutes. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:59, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply

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I've set up the list-defined references and added one to a place in the article where it seemed to belong. Of course, I don't know which sources were actually used for the content, so I'll have to leave placing the rest up to the original editor, but the process is explained on my user talk page and should be fairly straightforward. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:36, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to the contributors so far for an informative article.

I wonder how often serial extraction is used. I am guessing that there are estimates or statistics on its use in the U.S. Does its use vary among developed countries? Has its use increased or decrease over time? What is its general level of acceptance among dentists? Among orthodontists? Are there textbooks/chapters treating it? Is it treated in a standard way in the dental-school curricula?

Naturally it is best to respond mainly by editing the article. Thank you.CountMacula (talk) 20:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]