User talk:MarsAdept
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Citations
I saw you have this as one of your priorities, so I will give some advice that should help you along this process. The way references work in MediaWiki is that they have what is called a tag. A tag is any marker in the text that is enclosed in <>. Each tag has an opening and a closing tag to form the 'object'. That's way more complicated than you really need to know though.
Basically, a reference is as simple as putting text in the phrase <ref></ref>. We also have templates that can auto generate reference text within the references, so if you wanted to generate a link to Magical Starsign within references, you would put <ref>{{Cite Media|MS}}</ref>, which would give Magical Starsign in references.
The reference tag can also be labeled so that it can be used in multiple places in an article. So, for instance, with that reference before, we could say <ref name="MS">{{Cite Media|MS}}</ref>, which would allow us to put <ref name="MS"/> somewhere else in an article and have it link to the same reference.
With footnotes, the only different is that they are assigned to a different group. If for whatever reason I wanted to put the Magical Starsign reference in the Notes section, all I would have to do is again change the ref tag by putting <ref name="MS" group="lower-alpha">{{Cite Media|MS}}</ref>, which would put the reference in the "lower-alpha" group AKA the notelist group. Like before, we can put that tag in multiple places by putting <ref name="MS" group="lower-alpha"/> somewhere else in the article. 
Rman41 (talk) 06:47, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! I kind of already learned when I made an edit a few days ago, but this is helpful for future reference! I appreciate it! MarsAdept (talk) 03:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Spirit pages
Yo, I saw your comments about the spirit pages and their inconsistencies. They haven't been given a lot of attention since we left Fandom back in November, so prioritizing them is definitely a must. I'll begin with updating their infoboxes with all the necessary info, as well as the spells associated with their element and their proper naming styles. Thanks for bringing it to light, and hopefully, we can have all that renovated in the near future! Magicwindsock (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)