User talk:Arnaugler

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Hi—I saw your request about making a link like this: to get situation in Israel (using the source editor), you use [[Israel–Hamas war|situation in Israel]]. The text you want goes after the |. (I don't know about the visual editor, as I don't use it.) The basic formats are [[link to this]] and [[link to this|but display this]].

For that particular one, note that it's easy to make a typo by using Israel-Hamas instead of Israel–Hamas. I usually just paste the title from the linked article itself, to avoid that sort of thing.

I'd suggest trying things out in your sandbox, which will be at User:Arnaugler/sandbox if you've already created it, and which clicking the link should allow you to create if not. Musiconeologist (talk) 13:38, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PS useful searches: starting a search with wp: brings up information pages about Wikipedia practices, editing techniques and so on. Starting with help: (e.g. help:citation needed) brings up more detailed (but sometimes more technical) help pages. I use both of those all the time. Musiconeologist (talk) 14:27, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Musiconeologist Hi, thank you so much for the assistance and the information! I'd also like to thank you for having my back with KEmel49, and for seeing that I was trying to get it right and just didn't know how to do so. I can't tell you how many times I previewed those citations, tweaked them, then previewed them again before I finally gave in. I will definitely play around in my sandbox a bit, now that I know I have one. Cheers! Arnaugler (talk) 02:35, 31 January 2025 (UTC)arnaugler[reply]

Thanks for all that! I'd actually forgotten trying to help with those things, so I'm glad to know I did. Also I'm pleased to see you weren't put off.

I'm not a big fan of automated messages myself—they can come across as quite fierce without being meant that way, which I think is what happened with that one. It's actually written as a little bit of code that decides which message to leave someone based on what the error was, I think.

Anyway thank you for letting me know I helped. I appreciate that. :-) Musiconeologist (talk) 03:39, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Worldcon

Hello Arnaugler, This is to let you know that one of your recent edit at Worldcon caused a citation error.

Do not add invalid url and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 17:14, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@KEmel49 Hi KEmel49, I apologize for the errors. I tried several times to cite my source correctly, but each time I tried, when I got to the preview there was some sort of error message. I even copied one of the other (correct) citations and pasted it after my edits, simply replacing their information with mine. I still got an error message. Eventually I gave up and published it with the information I had and left the message on the talk page asking for assistance. Can you point me in the right direction? What is the proper format for citing a post on a webpage? Arnaugler (talk) 18:47, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]