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Hello, Dvbyrne. You have new messages at WP:Help desk#Confused about new articles/articles for creation/talk article etc..
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—Akrabbim^talk 12:37, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Several issues here: we never link books to publisher sales pages; if it has a Buy-It-Now link, don't link to it. Just include the ISBN which goes to a page where the book can found in libraries and a full selection of online retailers. Second, self-published investment research documents are not

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Hi

Yworo. Thanks for the information. I'm somewhat new to this and I appreciate all the discussions and tips - I definitely don't want to end up blocked! I will remove the links to the sales pages and the file hosting server site and see what I can do about citing that information appropriately. Any other tips/information is very much appreciated. Cheers!Dvbyrne (talk) 18:56, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Sorry,

Yworo just one more question - I see the the chart I inserted for the top producing mines was removed even though it didn't link to a 'self-published investment research document'. Is this because it included the link to the publisher sales page? I would like to add it back as I don't see any other issue aside from the external url, but if you had another reason for removing it can you please let me know. Also, how do I edit a reference after I've created it? (So I can remove the external url on the silver page edit I made?) Thanks!Dvbyrne (talk) 19:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply

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I think I've fixed my citations but I always appreciate feedback. Dvbyrne (talk) 20:56, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A list of mining companies is not needed on this article. Please simply link to where the information has been added to a more appropriate article, such as

Hi

Yworo's answers? Yworo did help me with my citations by removing ones that didn't follow wikipedia standards, but I still need to know how to edit a reference that is ok but spelled wrong, and also how to delete duplicate pages. As far as I can tell, Yworo didn't provide an answer to these particular questions. Am I looking in the wrong place? Sorry, there are so many different means of communicating on wikipedia I don't feel fully oriented yet. Thanks for the help - it's nice to encounter users who don't "bite newbies." Dvbyrne (talk) 22:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply

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I only looked at the section above - it looked like one end of a conversation, so I just assumed that

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To edit a reference, the simplest way if the article isn't too long is to click the "Edit" link right at the top of the page, where it says "Read / Edit / History". Then use your browser's "Find" function (Ctrl-F in most browsers) to search for the incorrect word. You'll find it somewhere within a pair of <ref> ... </ref> tags or perhaps inside a template such as {{cite web}}. Fix the spelling, then "preview" to see if you've done it right, then "save". If you're not familiar with the reference syntax, then Help:Footnotes would be a good place to start reading.

Deletion of a duplicate page - it depends on what the pages are. Looking through your contributions I think you are talking about Wikipedia:Articles for creation/South American Silver Corp. Because you are the only contributor to that page, a way to request deletion would be to add the magic text {{db-author}} at the top. When you "preview", that will show as a big red deletion request. Then save that, with an edit summary like "Requesting deletion of duplicate page, see [[South American Silver Corporation]]". That will put the page into a queue for the admins to look at. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]