User talk:Charles Merchant III

Welcome!

Hello, Charles Merchant III, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Whpq (talk) 18:58, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Footnotes

Hi. I see by your edits on Robert Crull that you are baffled by how to place footnotes in Wikipedia. I can completely sympathize as I struggled to figure t out when I first tried. Wikipedia:Footnotes provides some basic information. The gist of it that you simply enclose your reference in reference tags placed immediately in the main text body like this: <ref>insert reference here</ref>. The wiki software will automatically create a reference number and place the citation in the reference section. I hope this helps, and please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 21:21, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]