John Lee (johnleemk@gawab.com) [041212 23:00]:
David Gerard wrote:
What we need is to encourage a culture of including references. I'm trying to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing fancy reference-indexing things.) I would love love love it if the standard edit boilerplate included the following as the first paragraph, on its own: Have you remembered to include your references?
- with the word "references" being a link to a page on how to reference
things. (Inline links, a mention in ==External links and references== ... Do we have a suitable page?) What would it take for this to happen? Can anyone see any insuperable problems with putting this in?
[[Wikipedia:Cite sources]]? I'm not sure if they cover inline references, though.
That would be the page I was thinking of :-D
- d.