May I ask someone to check my source citation work?

Question

I am new, and I want someone to check a basic edit I made to my ggg-grandfather's profile.  I think I successfully added the source (Vermont vital records), but I don't think I got it connected to the correct data (died).  Do I need to put it into order among the other sources, or assign it a footnote number?  Do those generate automatically?  ALSO, please check the other (existing, done by someone else) source links, none of them work for me, they just zip me down to the bottom of the page, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, Cliff, profile info is:

Parnell-740

Answer 1

Cliff take a look at the changes tab on Michael's profile. You'll see what I did with your source to create the footnote number.

And yes when you click on the number it zips you down to the bottom of the page, directly to the footnote. So that you'll see your VR source (good source) is now #8.

The other rather meaningless looking sources  that look like "Source #000000000, click on the number and it zaps you farther down the page to tell you the actual source. This is a rather more complicated way of creating sources. Gedcom imports do that and a few people on wikitree, most of us prefer putting the source between <ref> and </ref> which is what i did

Comments

Thanks Anne, I see that you got the right end result, but I'm not sure why my similar attempt earlier didn't work.  I had tried to put the long string in the "Bio" section and the entire string ended up where the footnote # was supposed to be.  I'll have to keep studying, maybe I missed a <ref> somewhere.

Also, I get that the links take me to the note, but what is the point if they don't take me to the actual website that contains the info (as mine does)?

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It's very easy to miss a ref.

As for why no links. Sometimes there isn't a website. Some of us forget to add that information (I predate the internet by many decades). You used the lovely Family search citations that include the website. Ancestry's citations do not and then not everyone can access them anyway. So many reasons including laziness. I don't need a URL to find a well cited source.

Answer 2

Here you go:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources_Style_Guide

Happy sourcing!

Comments

You are missing the point entirely.
I know where the "Help" section is, and I have gone in circles trying to make sense of the many different ways to do things, and the conflicting info.  
Did you click the links?  Did you actually read my concerns.  I want to be respectful, but I also to be taken seriously.

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I stand corrected, I'm new too.  I think you got the help you needed.

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Yes, thanks, I think I'm on the right track now.