MotivationalMagic

Full-time corporate magician and illusionist. Would like to volunteer to work WikiProject Magic areas of stage illusions, current full-time nationally known illusionists, and bios of notable professional magicians in Las Vegas, and in the New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania areas.

Hal Sparks

To give you a quick answer, the link is this. An encyclopedia article does not direct those seeking information to an area where the must pay or even just provide an e-mail address, which it did, in order to read the material to which you are directing them. It also appeared that the article is 5 years old. Also, Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files, so an external link (which yours was, it's not a reference) must significantly relate to the article. You also placed it incorrectly in the references section when it's an external link. I will be happy to help with anything else, although I'm just an editor, and if you feel that I'm wrong you do have the ability to revert my edits. Mjpresson (talk) 19:03, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Magic, the reference thing is confusing for the first ten years. Then it becomes slightly easier. I wasn't sure of your experience so I didn't want to presume to explain things you might already know (don't you hate that?). Basically the References section only lists in numerical order the footnoted parts of the article. External links section is for referring readers to other websites that provide relevant information about the article's subject. The need for "timeworthiness" (my fake word}, or "notability" of the external link (EL) is essential, such as with Hal, if we put an EL to every published interview with him it would be a page in itself, and wp isn't a list of links. But hold on tight...I have an awesome template that will help you but I need to find it.Mjpresson (talk) 19:44, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

For making footnote refs, I use refTools (in the Preferences>Gadgets tab). It places an easy form to fill then converts it to a citation. just remember to replace the cursor where you want to place the footnote numeral before clicking "add". Then...if you make a section that looks exactly like this,

==References==
{{reflist}}

WP will place them in numerical order wherever you put {{reflist}}. Hope that's a little better. It's actually very easy. I compiled myself a help page off of my main page, take anything you need from it. Mjpresson (talk) 20:05, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Visual inline citation guide

Formatting references using inline citations

All information in Wikipedia articles should be verified by citations to reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is using the "cite.php" form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references section after the text of the article. In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />. In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code <references/> or, most commonly, the template, {{Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in columns using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article.
Inline citation code; what you type in 'edit mode'	What it produces when you save
Two separate citations.<ref>Citation text.</ref><ref>Citation text2.</ref> Multiple<ref name="multiple">Citation text3.</ref> citation<ref name="multiple" /> use.<ref name="multiple" /> == References == {{Reflist}}	Two separate citations. Multiple citation use. References_________________
Templates that can be used between <ref>...</ref> tags to format references {{Citation}} • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite book}} • {{Cite news}} • {{Cite journal}} • Others • Examples

And there's also Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference just fill out and place between

<ref>these</ref>

Glad to help anytime. If this is all too much for your talk page, you (or I) can move it to a subpage for you with a link to it on your userpage. Mjpresson (talk) 15:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Magic

Hello!

As you may have noticed I've been away for a while. Thanks for volunteering your time to the project. Do you still need help or have you found your feet in the mean time? - Mgm|^(talk) 09:34, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Nomination of Richard Saldan for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. PriceDL (talk) 18:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)