User:The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome/Please format the link

Please format the external links

Hello again, The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome …

Please format the external links that you are providing for ArticleName (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) by 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):

from your Web browser's menu, View | Page source
search for the HTML <title> tag
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 2009-08-03.

Note: by using ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) one 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.

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.

See also: Wikipedia:Citation templates

Note: This example is used for illustration only, and should not suggest that user created web pages are a reliable source, although they may be referenced from an article's External links section.