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05-22-2016, 08:01 AM
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If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
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(05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
I don't understand what your looking for other than the ability to hyperlink wikipedia articles that already exists.
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Is there a wikipedia article about the Strauss and Howe theory, or about either of them? Links could be put up to the forum to any of these articles. Maybe I'll do it.
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(05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
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(05-23-2016, 08:39 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: (05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
Use the chain icon 
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(05-23-2016, 06:14 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: (05-23-2016, 08:39 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: (05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
Use the chain icon
#RagsIsLazy
OK, I put a link at the end of the page taramarie referenced; we'll see if the wikipedia authorities allow it to remain posted.
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(05-23-2016, 10:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: (05-23-2016, 06:14 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: (05-23-2016, 08:39 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: (05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
Use the chain icon
#RagsIsLazy
OK, I put a link at the end of the page taramarie referenced; we'll see if the wikipedia authorities allow it to remain posted.
Thanks, I think Wikipedia's TOS prohibit me from doing that
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(05-24-2016, 12:44 AM)Dan Wrote: (05-23-2016, 10:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: (05-23-2016, 06:14 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: (05-23-2016, 08:39 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: (05-22-2016, 08:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I want to make a reference to Wikipedia for explaining a word or concept, I might like to make the reference easy and look relatively plain. Thus if I want to explain what a widget is, I could put it in a device that leads me to the Wikipedia article that says what a widget is. Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and usually reliable.
What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
Use the chain icon
#RagsIsLazy
OK, I put a link at the end of the page taramarie referenced; we'll see if the wikipedia authorities allow it to remain posted.
Thanks, I think Wikipedia's TOS prohibit me from doing that
I don't know what TOS means (I am poor at decipherhing acronyms), but perhaps because you are personally in charge of this forum you might not be allowed to post a link. Interestingly, the article itself mentioned this "message board" in discussing whether the 4T began in 2001 (9-11), 2005 (Katrina) or 2008 (Great Recession), and that there was disagreement here; certainly a big topic on this (and the former) forum. But I don't remember if links to other sites are allowed within the text of an article.
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TOS = terms of service
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(05-24-2016, 11:27 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: (05-24-2016, 12:44 AM)Dan Wrote: (05-23-2016, 10:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: (05-23-2016, 06:14 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: (05-23-2016, 08:39 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: What you are asking for is called a hyperlink. This forum already has that feature. You can add a hyperlink by using the following BB code
[*url=www.PBRneedstolearn2useforums.xyz]words[/url*]
If you remove the asterisks at the beginning and end of the bracketed portions you'll end up with something like this:
Wikipedia
Use the chain icon
#RagsIsLazy
OK, I put a link at the end of the page taramarie referenced; we'll see if the wikipedia authorities allow it to remain posted.
Thanks, I think Wikipedia's TOS prohibit me from doing that
I don't know what TOS means (I am poor at decipherhing acronyms), but perhaps because you are personally in charge of this forum you might not be allowed to post a link. Interestingly, the article itself mentioned this "message board" in discussing whether the 4T began in 2001 (9-11), 2005 (Katrina) or 2008 (Great Recession), and that there was disagreement here; certainly a big topic on this (and the former) forum. But I don't remember if links to other sites are allowed within the text of an article.
I think Wikipedia does let you post links to other sites. There are some guidelines to post external links to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links
There's also a link to the message board on Strauss and Howe's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2...eory#Links
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06-09-2016, 07:27 PM
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(06-09-2016, 07:03 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote: There's also a link to the message board on Strauss and Howe's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2...eory#Links
Which I put there  I'm glad it's still there.
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