Tad Richards

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Inline citations

Hi Tad, I saw you created Metropole Cafe a while ago. The "inline citations" requested in the tag on this article require the following:

1. After the statement / the paragraph that is supported by the reference, put all information about the reference between <ref></ref> tags. This looks best if you use the {{cite}} template, see documentation at Template:Cite. The whole construct then looks like this <ref>{{cite book|title=title of book|last=Last name of author|first=first name of author|year=year of publication|other parameters=other values}}</ref>
2. At the bottom of the page, collect all references of the article by placing a {{reflist}} template.

You can look at Metropole Cafe again to see an example of how this works. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! --Pgallert (talk) 19:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

To PGallert

Thanks -- I'll make sure to follow that guideline in the future. I'm used to the in-text citation style of MLA.

{{help me}}Not sure I'm editing the talk page correctly...

Tad Richards (talk) 23:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tad, there is nothing wrong with your talk page edit. However, for obtaining help the {{helpme}} template only works if it is not surrounded by <nowiki></nowiki> tags--you just type the word "helpme" (no space) and surround it by double curly brackets. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 06:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Brew Moore wiki page

The author mentions a 1949 session with Moore, Stan Getz, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims for Savoy. I don't want to change this because I'm not positive that the five saxophone players didn't make a record for Savoy. But I know that in 1949, they recorded a bunch of sides for Prestige.

Tad Richards (talk) 00:36, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Tad Richards

Joe Williams (jazz singer)

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Barbara Lea

The Barbara Lea page is a little confusing. The first paragraph talks about her growing up and attending school in Detroit. The second paragraph begins with a line about Boston being a musical hotbed, which it was, but so was Detroit. Did she move to Boston at some point, or was she jamming with musicians in Detroit? he paragraph ends with her enrolling at Wellesley, which would put her in Boston.

Tad Richards (talk) 15:50, 21 June 2016 (UTC) Tad Richards

Jazz harpists

The jazz harpists page is broken down by letters of the alphabet. It probably shouldn't be, because there are so few jazz harpists, but it is. Anyway, I would like to add harpist Corky Hale to the page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Hale --but I don't know how to add a H.

Tad Richards

Hey, just to help you out a bit, User talk pages (you're currently reading yours if you're reading this) are usually where other people come to leave messages to you. So that's why you may have noticed you haven't gotten much of a response from other people when you write on your own talk page. Asking questions on your talk page is kind comparable to...getting lost while traveling and asking for directions by leaving yourself a voicemail on your phone asking for help. Unless someone overheard you, you're really just kind of talking to yourself. (I only stumbled across it because I saw your comment at WP:ALBUMS.) Hope this helps. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 15:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

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Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. I have a VPN which my grandson put there and I don't know how to disable, but honestly, it's just me. I did a search on my name and according to the search, I'm not blocked, but I still can't edit any sites. I think I've made some valuable additions to Wiki over the years.. Tad Richards (talk) 14:33, 1 June 2018 (UTC)Tad Richards

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