User talk:Mikeblas/Archives/2022/June

Beaver Lake 131

Hi there, at the risk of your entire talk page filling up with questions like this - what citation error have you corrected with this edit on the Beaver Lake 131 stub? It seems like you've just added a new source without it being referenced in the (scant) text of the article. James Hyett (talk) 00:03, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi there! There are different approaches to making refereneces in articles, and of those different approaches different ways to actually implemnet the references. Even though referencing is a fundamental feature of Wikipedia (a requirement, really!), referencing is byzantine and opaque and confusing. So I'm always happy to answer well-intended questions.

In the previous version of that article, we can find this reference invocation: {{sfn|Government of Alberta|2012|p=21}} four different times. {{sfn}} is mean to make a footnote reference to a provided bibliographic reference. In this case, the "Government of Alberta" reference was never defined, which is an error -- the footonte is there, but it can't reference anything. That's an error, and places the article in the Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors error tracking category.

So, the fix is to just define that reference. The history of the article revealed that the {{sfn}} reference was added by User:James Hyett back in January of 2019. (Which means that this article was incorrectly referenced for more than three years!) Their edit summary says they copied some material from another article, and that article fortunately provided a reference of the same name so I copied it over. That reference definition satisfies the footnote invocations, and now there are on more errors and the article is correctly referenced.

Hope that helps! -- Mikeblas (talk) 11:00, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Oop! You're James Hyett! Sorry, I didn't realize that when I wrote my response. -- Mikeblas (talk) 11:04, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Brilliant, thank you! Yeah, definitely a result of me copying the infobox over without realising what the sfn template was all about. Thanks! James Hyett (talk) 16:25, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

... FYI, I did not "introduce" this "error", the article creator did.--NortyNort (Holla) 00:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry, you're right. -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:06, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Latest stable software release/Filzip

Template:Latest stable software release/Filzip has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:51, 21 June 2022 (UTC)