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Experienced Wikipedians often glean a great deal about articles from looking at the page history and following up to the individual edits that make up that history. This page describes some of these tricks of the trade. The suggestions here apply mostly to substantive articles with a number of contributors.
To view a history of only moves and no other edits, go to Special:Log/move and input the name of the article in the "target" field. If instead of a move, the entire content was cut, copied, and pasted into a new substitute article, the page history gets spread across two
Paste the publication name inside the apostrophes so it's italicized. Paste the publication date. Inside the brackets [] paste the url first with the article title to the right, and put both url and title inside the brackets. Remember to leave a blank space between url and title. For example, in editing mode if you type this
Note that MLA style calls for both the date of publication (or its latest update). The "Accessed date" is now optional but could be useful for general readership not familiar with permanent links in Wikipedia (old id). Be sure to double check the exact syntax your institution requires. For citation of Wikipedia as a site, use:
For web-only sources with no publication date, the "Retrieved" date (or the date you accessed the web page) should be included, in case the web page changes in the future. For example: Retrieved 15 July 2011 or you can use the access-date parameter in the automatic Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0 editing window feature.
When citing sources in Wikipedia articles, the citation must clearly support the material as presented in the article, per the verifiability policy.It helps to give a page number or page range—or a section, chapter, or other division of the source—because then the reader does not have to carefully review the whole cited source to find the relevant supporting evidence, which promotes ...
See if an archived version of the article is available via a search feature on the newspaper's website. Use WorldCat to see if your local library has a physical (print or microfilm) version of the newspaper issue containing the article. Request the article or the newspaper through your library's interlibrary loan service, if available.
Use this inline template before a citation's </ref> tag to indicate that the citation is missing a full date where one is warranted. Not for use on events missing their date of occurrence; for this, use the template {{when}}. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Example ...