June 17, 2016

These notes are for how to edit Wikipedia articles. 

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 SELF-CITATION
I checked the Wikipedia guidelines, and they say that self-attribution is fine if it is relevant. I saw somewhere that gratuitous self-citation is quickly undone, but that is probably only for much-read articles. I think it would be fine just  to be open about self-citation and to invite others to undo if they think it's inappropriate. 
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BOXES AND FORMATTING AND FONT
 If you leave a blank at the start of the line, the formatting goes crazy. 
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 REFERENCES
It is OK to be simple about references and not use all the tags. A footnote is put where the little number is to appear, like this: 

<ref name=bergstrom>Bergstrom, Ted (2015). [http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/GraduateTheoryUCSB/elasticity_of_substitution2015.pdf ''Lecture Notes on Elasticity of Substitution''], p. 5. Viewed June 17, 2016. </ref> 

It is OK to use HTML commands such as italicizing in the example below. 

 <ref name=chirinko>Chirinko,Robert(2006). [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070407001619 ''Sigma: The Long and Short of It'']. <i> Journal of Macroeconomics. </i> 2: 671-86.</ref> 
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You need to watch spacing--- the program is not like HMTL, which automatically removes excess spaces. 
 
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