Talk:Turriff

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Reason for the coo?

It would be helpful if someone could explain why refusing to pay National Insurance results in a statue of a cow. Afterbrunel (talk) 20:00, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

• I've tried to do this, mainly based on the synopsis from the History of tax resistance article. Expand/contract as necessary... --Walnuts go kapow (talk) 09:21, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Scotlands Largest two-day agricultural show

How would I add a citation for the Turriff Show being Scotlands Largest two-day agricultural show? Ask Google about "largest two day agricultural Show in Scotland" and the results are all for the Turriff Show but which site or article would be classed as authoritative?

I've changed the wording to 'widely accepted as' but some help would be useful

Mike Rawlins (talk) 07:12, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Mike. Citations show where there information in the encyclopedia came from. We add them to articles to demonstrate that facts - particularly ones people might dispute - aren't just made up. To add a citation, you add the text "<ref></ref>" to the article, preferably immediately after the fact or phrase in question. So here:

"a two-day agricultural show which is widely accepted as Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show, is held annually on the first Sunday"

becomes

"a two-day agricultural show which is widely accepted as Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show<ref></ref>, is held annually on the first Sunday"

Now, in the middle of the two 'tags', we add information about where that fact came from. You could enter any old text, but a number of templates exist (normally with names starting cite) that help present your source in a standard format. Lets say the fact came from a newspaper, we could use the {{cite news}} template. Most templates pages give examples of their use that can be cut and pasted into an article, so:

"a two-day agricultural show which is widely accepted as Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |newspaper= |location= |access-date= }}</ref>, is held annually on the first Sunday"

The last job is to fill in the blanks in the template; often fields can be left blank if you don't have the necessary information.

"a two-day agricultural show which is widely accepted as Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show<ref>{{cite news |last=McSporran |first=Angus |date=12th August 2007 |title=Crowds flock to Turra Show |url= |newspaper=Press & Journal |location= |access-date=11-sep-2015 }}</ref>, is held annually on the first Sunday"

And you're done. If you're citing information from a book, use {{cite book}} or from a website, {{cite web}}. The more reliable and trustworthy the source of information the better. Good luck. - TB (talk) 08:07, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Which of the numerous articles would be considered as authoritative if I were to cite them? Mike Rawlins (talk) 11:50, 29 October 2015 (UTC)