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I don't know if you are aware of this, but Wikipedia has a reasonably convenient tool for adding properly formatted references to articles. I did it by hand for a long time (and still fix them by hand), but the tool is aware about all the templates and nuances. Go to "my preferences", tab "Gadgets", and activate "refTools" under "Editing gadgets". Don't forget to save ;-). Some documentation is under User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar. Good luck with editing! --Stephan Schulz (talk) 09:23, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2009-02-05T09:23:00.000Z","author":"Stephan Schulz","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Stephan_Schulz-2009-02-05T09:23:00.000Z-Adding_References","replies":[]}}-->

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Are you the same person as Norbert128? If so, can you explain why you have both accounts, and if not then can you say what your relationship is to that person? JamesBWatson (talk) 15:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-09-20T15:51:00.000Z","author":"JamesBWatson","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-JamesBWatson-2011-09-20T15:51:00.000Z-Duplicate_accounts?","replies":[]}}-->

Yes, I am Reimarspohr (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2011 (UTC) and I would like to change to Norbert128. Reimarspohr (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-09-20T16:18:00.000Z","author":"Reimarspohr","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Reimarspohr-2011-09-20T16:18:00.000Z-Duplicate_accounts?","replies":[]}}-->

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(1) Is the speedy deletion tag still active on the article "ion track"?
(2) May I clean up the user talk myself? Reimarspohr (talk) 15:33, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-09-23T15:33:00.000Z","author":"Reimarspohr","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Reimarspohr-2011-09-23T15:33:00.000Z-Help_request","replies":["c-JohnCD-2011-09-23T18:14:00.000Z-Reimarspohr-2011-09-23T15:33:00.000Z"]}}-->

I have moved this to the bottom of the page - new additions are normally placed at the bottom of talk pages, and that is where people will look for them.

No, the speedy deletion tag on Ion track is no longer active - it it was, you would see a large pink notice at the top of the page.

I'm not sure what you mean by "clean up the user talk", but talk pages are not normally "cleaned up", except in case of vandalism - comments on talk pages are left for the record. JohnCD (talk) 18:14, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-09-23T18:14:00.000Z","author":"JohnCD","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-JohnCD-2011-09-23T18:14:00.000Z-Reimarspohr-2011-09-23T15:33:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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Hi Reimarspohr, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Reimarspohr/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-10-23T11:31:00.000Z","author":"ThatPeskyCommoner","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-ThatPeskyCommoner-2011-10-23T11:31:00.000Z-Some_tips_to_help_you_out!","replies":[],"displayName":"Pesky"}}-->

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Reimarspohr/reftest and try it out.

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Hi there Reimarspohr! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you might appreciate some help with references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-10-23T11:31:00.000Z","author":"ThatPeskyCommoner","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-ThatPeskyCommoner-2011-10-23T11:31:00.000Z-Something_to_make_your_life_easier!","replies":[],"displayName":"Pesky"}}-->

A tag has been placed on Journal of Membrane Science, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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A tag has been placed on Journal of Membrane Science, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Tarheel95 (talk) 12:38, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-10-28T12:38:00.000Z","author":"Tarheel95","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Tarheel95-2011-10-28T12:38:00.000Z-Speedy_deletion_nomination_of_Journal_of_Membrane_Science_2","replies":[]}}-->

I recommend you to create a template for the page tabs in your ion track technology articles. I suggest that the titles I have used in Ion track technology (materials) should be taken as definitive. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 16:12, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-10-28T16:12:00.000Z","author":"RHaworth","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-RHaworth-2011-10-28T16:12:00.000Z-ITT","replies":["c-Antony-22-2011-10-28T21:20:00.000Z-RHaworth-2011-10-28T16:12:00.000Z"]}}-->

That's actually not the proper use of page tabs; they should not be used in article space. Each section should be merged into one article. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 21:20, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-10-28T21:20:00.000Z","author":"Antony-22","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Antony-22-2011-10-28T21:20:00.000Z-RHaworth-2011-10-28T16:12:00.000Z","replies":[],"displayName":"Antony\u201322"}}-->

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