Feel free to talk - I'll check it every day :)
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for new stubs is they can be orphans very easily - I have linked 2 items for you in the stub you have started, worth now going to the articles linked to see if there is any relevance in linking back... if you get my drift. Being a new user - no need to spill your life story at the scotland project - just find some people who can help you without fuss, btw - there are some people in Australia who, once you get to know them - they caqn be helpful as well. cheers sats 07:59, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you :) Calamity Hill (talk) 08:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you - it's slowly becoming clear how it works! Thanks again! Calamity Hill (talk) 08:22, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
t's been 2 years since I was last there - but lived in Scotland for 45 years before parachuting into Australia. It's actually cold enough in Brisbane tonight to remind me of Edinburgh (In the summer lol). Calamity Hill (talk) 08:33, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
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if you have any question feel free to drop me a line on my talk page! Carliitaeliza TALK 15:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
sats 04:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
sheesh - every bugger got their toes cut off in the 1760's - the brits, france, genoa all got their damage from corsica and boswell had his fingers in the till. sheesh - the book was an important issue re the brits crisis even if it is not m entioned there. sats 04:36, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you to all. Appreciated. Calamity Hill (talk) 05:13, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have altered the bare urls in the article by using the "cite template" facility as I think it is the easiest way to include refs. I'm hoping that by looking at the way I've inserted them, it will be helpful for you? I was going to direct you to the very helpful editors at the Teahouse but I see you have found your way there! Good luck with your article - I'm sure it will be very interesting! SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:58, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Ah ok...no worries...how do I kill the original? (Apologies for sounding dense but I don't want to get it wrong and stuff it up) - I'm presuming I have to somehow kill it? Calamity Hill (talk) 12:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you - Calamity Hill (talk) 12:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, much appreciated - I'm in the process of reading the book again at present to fillet what's necessary from it. I added an important POV quote from Lyttelton which appears in the foreword but for the life of me I can't get the hang of the way to reference it - but it comes in the foreword, page 7 of the book itself. I will take the time to learn how to do all these things but felt guilty that so many kind people were 'pitching in' and therefore I felt the need to do something just now to let you all know I hadn't ceased work on it. Unfortunately I need to disappear for a little while as Liverpool are playing live on Aussie TV and it's a rarity to get British soccer clubs live here - back soon :) Calamity Hill (talk) 09:12, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
No not pushy at all - the more the merrier. As for DYK, I think that's great, fantastic, and as soon as I work out what DYK means I'll be back with more superlatives lol - seriously though I'm off to look up DYK to see what it means and what would need to be done...Thanks Again! Calamity Hill (talk) 09:29, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for creating the article about An Account of Corsica - if you check the article history, you'll see it now shows you as the original creator! Thanks also, of course to sats for help too . I hope you don't mind that I have added some extra independent refs and changed the headings to follow the usual structure for books? SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, I've played around with the article a little bit - please feel free to change any of it! If you could fill out the content section a bit more, it would be great. By the way, do you have a ref for the sentence I've marked as 'citation needed'?
Speaking of refs, are you trying to add them by using the 'edit' tab or the 'edit source' section? To be honest, I cannot get to grips with Visual Editor (which is where you're taken if you use the 'edit' tab), so you might want to try 'edit source' and that will also let you see the mark up already used for refs in the article.
Hope you enjoyed the football match!! SagaciousPhil - Chat 17:01, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Apologies Phil - been inundated with work - only now (fri afternoon) can I settle down to this again. My problem with references was really one of fear. When I entered something I knew had to be referenced I normally click on the little ref's thing at the bottom to enter a reference - but because there were already seven references or so - and mine was about to come before them - I panicked thinking 'Maybe I'll knock all the other references out of sync'? If you see what I mean? Thanks for all your help BTW, it's really coming along! Calamity Hill (talk) 06:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
On 4 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article An Account of Corsica, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 1768 journal An Account of Corsica (engraved illustration pictured) was so successful its author Boswell became widely known as "Corsica Boswell"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/An Account of Corsica. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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