User talk:Magura123
March 2024[edit]
Hello, and thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia's sources, as you did at Coverage of Google Street View! However, adding a bare URL is not ideal. It is preferable to use proper citation templates, for example, {{cite web}}:
<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jang |first1=Songran |title=Street View comes to Kazakhstan |url=https://blog.google/products/maps/google-street-view-kazakhstan/ |website=[[Google]] |access-date=26 March 2024 |language=en-us |date=25 March 2024}}</ref>
This would display under References as:
- Jang, Songran (25 March 2024). "Street View comes to Kazakhstan". Google. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
By all means copy-and-paste this into the article to replace the bare URL, if it looks good to you.
If you've added other bare URLs to articles, there are tools available to expand them into full citations. For example, for the above, I used the RefToolbar's autofill, then filled in a few details manually. For pages with multiple bare URLS, have a look at the reFill tool, which can resolve some bare references semi-automatically.