User talk:Devonshire chemist

Welcome to Wikipedia - some useful links for you[edit]

Hello, Devonshire chemist! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Thanks for the message[edit]

I'll go and have a look! ref tags can be very confusing at first - took me ages to work them out!. DuncanHill (talk) 00:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I think it's fixed now, take a look at this link to see the changes (it's often easier to show than explain) - [1]. Basically, I enclosed the external links in <ref>ref tags like this</ref>, which make them show in the "references" section at the bottom of the article. I also fixed one tag which was closed improperly (it was <ref/> instead of </ref> at the end of a reference, which broke the "cite journal" template and messed up the text). I hope this makes sense - and thank you for adding references, it's good to see someone new working on the subject. Do please ask if I can help again, best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 00:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mining Wikiproject[edit]

You might be interested in joining the Mining Wikiproject - it's a place for people interested in mining to work together to improve articles. It's not very active at the moment, (it is qquite a new project), so new editors would be very welcome. DuncanHill (talk) 00:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Devon Wikiproject[edit]

There's also a Devon Wikiproject, which may also be of interest. I've added the Dartmoor tin mining article to both of them. DuncanHill (talk) 00:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help desk question[edit]

Hi again, I have answered your help desk question about missing references at Wikipedia:Help desk#Missing references. Do please let me know if it makes sense (or if it doesn't!) DuncanHill (talk) 18:32, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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in response to the cleanup flag in the article on Frederick Gowland Hopkins I am preparing to convert the Timeline list into prose form with additional information and references. Can this be done with one edit? Or do I have to rewrite the Biography section and save the page, and then do a second edit to remove the Timeline section? Devonshire chemist (talk) 15:59, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't really matter. I have a slight preference for doing things as multiple edits, just because there's a chance that one of the changes is fine and another is problematic. It is easier to revert the single problematic one.--SPhilbrick T 16:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SPhilbrick[edit]

Thank you for the response,I made the changes without a problem Devonshire chemist (talk) 15:21, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]