User talk:Xavier.bower

This user is a student editor in UNIVERSITY_OF_CHICAGO/Science,_Culture,_and_Society_III_(Spring,_2018) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 03:06, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Xrefs

Xavier, I see you're using the obscure mechanism <sup>[[Pangenesis#cite note-:0-17|[17]]]</sup> -- what happens if someone adds or deletes some refs before number 17, hmm? I suspect it goes ... wrong (I was about to say something else). Could you please use a simpler and more robust mechanism? The easiest way is to name a ref to be reused, say <ref name=Doe2018>Doe, J. (2018) ...</ref> and then to reuse it wherever you like <ref name=Doe2018/> (note the slash at the end). Thanks Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:25, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Chiswick Chap, Thanks for pointing that out: I will go through and fix that soon. Completely unintentional. Xavier.bower (talk) 21:09, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]