AyamGoreng
Have revised the intro/summary of Caning in Singapore for brevity and clarity. Have also updated the list of "caning" offenses by linking to Singapore Parliamentary official reports available online. Had no problem adding footnotes with links to the source docs. However, found no joy in trying to get the references properly listed below. Grateful for any assistance. ˜˜˜˜
Hello, welcome to Wikipedia.
Thank you for adding some further offences to the list. I had been meaning to do this for some time.
For references, you need to enclose the reference between <ref> and </ref>; it will then appear under References at the bottom of the page, so you don't need to do anything about {{reflist}}, which is already there. Please read WP:CITEFOOT for more details.
If the reference is a web link, it should be enclosed between single square brackets together with (but separated by a space from) the title of the page being linked to, like this:
[http://www.example.org Text to display]
The page title then shows in the references as a clickable link. Alternatively, you can use a citation template, see WP:CITET.
I'm afraid I have reverted your rewritten introduction. The introduction (or "lead") needs to give an overall summary briefly covering all the most important points, leaving the detail for lower down the page. Usually with a well-established article like this, the "lead" has been gradually honed over a period of time by consensus between several editors, and should not need drastic editing. If you find it seriously unsatisfactory in some way, it's best to discuss the issue on the article's talk page before making major edits.
Two small points:
(1) As an article on a Commonwealth subject, this is written in British English, so it's "offences", not "offenses".
(2) Where there is a reference at the same point in the text as a punctuation mark (comma, full stop, colon or semi-colon), the reference comes after, not before, the punctuation mark.
Happy editing! Alarics (talk) 08:06, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Article Assessment
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Mentorship
editGreetings AyamGoreng! I am Arbitrarily0, and I've been assigned as your mentor. If you'd rather choose your own mentor or don't want one, just let me know; you can request a different mentor from this list of Online Ambassadors. I'll keep an eye on your edits as you work on Wikipedia for your class, and try to pitch in where I can. If you'd like any help or advice, please let me know. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 15:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)