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Happy Editing! — 72.75.117.122 (talk · contribs) 07:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete content

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Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Footbo, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. — 72.75.117.122 (talk) 07:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Footbo, you will be blocked from editing. Also see WP:OWN and WP:3RR, and do not remove the ((Article issues)) tag until they are resolved! — 72.75.117.122 (talk) 20:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Manolito18 ... please format the external links in Footbo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) using the ((cite web)) template ... you can use some of the other articles as examples ... whenever possible, use the <title> from the HTML file for the Web page (assuming you're an HTML newbie):

  1. from your Web browser's menu, View | Page source
  2. search for the HTML <title> tag
  3. copy the text up to the </title> end tag

Using http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm for an example, we examine the HTML source file, and can make: 

((cite web 
 |url= http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm 
 |title= The First Computer Bug! 
 |work= WaterHoles.com 
 |accessdate= ((subst:CurrentYYYYMMDD))
 ))

That produces:

"The First Computer Bug!". WaterHoles.com. Retrieved 2008-09-03.

Note: by using ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD), the MediaWiki software can automagically create links to the year and date articles ... it also avoids 02/04/08 confusion. :-)

Note: the |work= will add the italics, and if the source publication has an article (e.g.. The New York Times for nytimes.com), then place it in [[]] so that it will be linked ... you'll have to research whether or not a Spanish language publication like El Nuevo Herald has an article.

Even though I don't read Spanish, I can take "by Jose Padilla" and make:

|first= Jose |last= Padilla

This will get displayed as Padilla, Jose in the appropriate position in the citation.

Just read the Template:Cite web and Template:Cite news documentation (for published articles/reviews without Web versions), and you'll figure out what else you can use ... BTW, I've never used it myself, but there's a ((Cite press release)) template.

Happy Editing! — 72.75.117.122 (talk · contribs) 21:01, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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