Ligulem wrote:
The Germans use a list of red tape for the formatting at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Literatur#Format.
And they never change that. For obvious reasons :-)
Addendum: just found out that the "full" German red tape is even longer: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Literatur/Formatierungsregeln
Quote from that page:
"Die bisher verwandten Regeln unter Literatur sind unvollständig und werden uneinheitlich angewandt, weshalb detailliertere Regeln notwendig sind."
("The current rules are incomplete and not applied uniformly. Rules which go into more detail are needed")