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Your help desk question

You have a response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:18, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

I understand. A lot of people have trouble with the help pages. Eagleash has done most of what needs to be done on Assisi Network. He/she removed </ref> at the beginning of references and put that at the end. <ref> goes at the beginning. He also formatted the book reference using {{cite book|}}. You don't have to do it this way, but there are parameters that you can use after that first vertical line, such as "title=|", where you would put the name of the book after the equals sign and before the vertical line. He/she also found and added an ISBN number. You can also add the publisher (using "publisher=|"), last name of author ("last=|), first name of author ("first=|") and date of publication ("date=|"). I know all that is hard to follow. I had to learn it too at one time. But it is not required that you use a template. You could have also followed the format of a guide used for writing school term papers.

In the first place, external links are only for those useful sources that you can't use as a reference, maybe because they provide much more information than it is possible to put in a Wikipedia article. So the first of the external links needs to go. As for the CNA reference, is that online? If so, please provide a link to that. If you click on "edit" above this section, you can see one way to do it, if you'd rather not use a template. Although you have used a link on that other reference I mentioned. If it's not online, we only require you to provide us with enough information that we could go to a library and find it. We would need the name of the publication (if CNA is a publication, and Wikipedia has an article, you would [[link]] to that., You did provide a date, and under "External links" there is an article name. That appears to be the source you used, and if so, it should be under "references" with the other information that you already provided, not under "External links". And a page number would be nice if it's not online. Even if you can link to it, all of this information is still useful in case the link no longer works at some point in the future. This is also why for the source "Assisi Network", you should provide a more detail than you have. If my Internet was fast enough I could go to your link and provide you with specific information, or I could wait and do that at a library. But there should be an article name and possibly a date in case the link does not work at some point in the future.

And it appears that CNA reference is used twice. If the exact same source is used, then for that, if all the same information applies, you would say <ref name=CNA> before the first time it is used in place of <ref>, and just <ref name=CNA/> the second time, with the duplicated information removed. Does this help?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:11, 5 June 2016 (UTC)