16B EXT2013

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Hello students, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. You and your classmates have been doing good work to expand articles about endangered and extinct animals. I am leaving this note to offer some advice about editing more carefully and about editing Wikipedia in general.

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I have noticed that some of your fellow students have been having trouble adding citations to articles. It can be challenging to learn the proper syntax, but it is rewarding to see your additions formatted nicely when you get it right. When you add citations, please try to format them to match citations that are already in well-documented articles on Wikipedia. Specifically:

• Do not use month=, just put the whole day, month, and year in the date= parameter.
• Fill in accessdate= only when you have a url to go with it. accessdate= is not necessary for journal citations.
• accessdate= and other dates need to be in one of these formats. Date formats like 10/12/2013 can be confusing to people reading in countries where they put the day of the month first.
• Use pages= for the page numbers of a journal article, like this: pages=253–264. You should not cite the specific page on which the cited information appears.
• Web addresses need to start with "http://", like this: url=http://www.science.org. This is not right: url=www.science.org.
• I have noticed some typos in the citations that your fellow students have added. I strongly recommend using the copy and paste feature of your computer to avoid typos.

Thanks for all of your hard work! – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)