[Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links

[Akash Mehta]

The draft is coming along; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Draicone/WikiProject_Reference_Help
for current progress and feel free to edit.

On 9/3/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds like a really good idea, and we could use a formal
> wikiproject to encourage people to help establish these citation
> collections. I'm starting a draft at [[User:Draicone/WikiProject
> Reference Help]] if anyone wants to help. If we get a decent plan we
> can move it to the WP space.
>
> On 9/3/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Matt Brown wrote:
> > > I've learned, personally, {{cite web}} and {{cite book}}'s
> > > fundamentals, and look stuff up from time to time.  I've also created
> > > subst:able templates for reference works I cite a lot, so I don't have
> > > to do the thinking.
> >
> > Way back when I was doing a bunch of work citing various articles about
> > Stargate subjects and I kept using the same episode citations over and
> > over. I considered creating a group of templates specifically for those
> > cites, for example
> >
> > <ref>{{cite stargate sg-1/broca's gap}}</ref>
> >
> > So I wouldn't have to keep looking up airdates and other details to fill
> > in, and if the citation format changed or more information became
> > available they could all be updated with a single edit. Perhaps some
> > sort of formalized system along these lines might be useful for common
> > references? <ref>{{cite collection/Oxford dictionary 2006}}, p.
> > 1245</ref> for example. These big bibliographic lists would then become
> > collections of templates like this and they'd make better project pages.
> >
> >
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