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I have submitted a thorough article with numerous sources for the material contained therein about my Dad who was a famous arranger and inventor/Mattel. I was told I needed to edit in the footnotes in an "acceptable" fashion and have been unable to do that as I am only marginally "computer literate." I need some help on incorporating the listed sources with the article materials. Many thanks, Roger DuncanAnnerogerduncan (talk) 20:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hello Roger, the first thing to do is to fix the red "error reference closing" comments that show up in the Read mode of the article. The reason those errors are showing is because you're not "closing" each footnote out.
- This is what you're doing:
<ref>John Smith. ''History of Mattel''. Acme Publishers, 1993<ref> - This is what you want to do:
<ref>John Smith. ''History of Mattel''. Acme Publishers, 1993</ref>
- This is what you're doing:
- Tiny difference, but the lack of a "/" in the last "/ref" is what's confusing the coding, because it sees what it thinks are many beginnings of footnotes, but not the code which says "end of footnote", which is that "/ref". I fixed a few for you, but if you could drop in for a few minutes and just make sure ever footnote starts with "ref" but ends with "/ref", the article will smooth out and we can take a closer look at it. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:19, 12 October 2013 (UTC)