Talk:Dr. Raghav Chauhan

References and external links

You can find lots of articles that use references correctly if you look at the articles I corrected.

Basically, wherever you put a {{reflist}} all the existing references, so far, will be rendered. What goes between <ref></ref> pairs should render as something meaningful. See my contributions for many examles of the use of a {{cite news}} or related {{cite web}} template. Sophisticated users put one those between every <ref></ref> pair.

Your readers want more than a raw URL between the <ref></ref> pair.

<ref>[https://example.com/Joe_Blow Joe Blow]</ref> renders as Joe Blow, where the link says Joe Blow.

The <ref></ref> pairs in the external links section? The actual <ref></ref> part was inappropriate.

Half a dozen entries in the references section really belonged in the external links section

Geo Swan (talk) 14:13, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

an example

in this edit I changed a bad reference to an okay reference. It should really use a {{cite web}} template.

Note the "name=" field of the <ref> directive. The "name=" allows references that are used many places to be instantiated just once. They can be instantiated in the body of the article, but I prefer instantiating them within the {{reflist}}, in a refs= field. Fields within a template instantiation are separated by a vertical bar, the | symbol.

You'll figure it out. Geo Swan (talk) 14:38, 22 October 2022 (UTC)