Now, these are very major issues, we need to focus on both...these articles are essential components of WP:India
2012/1/15 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
We are in danger of losing the Featured Article status of Kolkata to poor referencing amongst others. Its not just Gandhi now!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
2012/1/15 Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debastein@gmail.com
+1 Ashwin...your information on referencing is just too awesome. Adding content is one thing on Wikipedia but same importance must be given to cleaning up the references.
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2012/1/15 wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com
iirc, I sent an email last week, its now much easier to use cite
templates. You dont need the blank template anymore, just use the dropdown on the top of the edit box and fill in the blanks :)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:50:49 +0530 From: ashwin.baindur@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] GA Master Class - Using cite templates
Someone asked, how do I use the templates for cite book, cite web etc? What does its columns mean?
Let us look at a template cite book in this post.
Typically, I store a shortened blank template for {{cite book}} which is:
<ref name="">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref>
Its really simple, just fill in the blanks. For example -
title (title of the book) = The Last Days of the Mahatma last (last name of author) = Desai first (first name of author) = Hirenbhai authorlink (if the author has a Wikipedia article on him, this is the name of that article, leave blank if none) = coauthors (names of additional authors, only if any) = Kulkarni, Srikanth & Karlekar, H. B. year (year of publication) = 2001 publisher (name of publisher) = Nawajiwan Press location (which city is publisher located in) = Ahmedabad isbn (International Standard Book Number, earlier in 9 digits, now in thirteen digits, IMPORTANT, specify only one isbn in the template, doesn't matter whether 9-digit or 13-digit) = 0-941990-93-9 page (give the page number; only use if the page referred was just one page) = 324 pages (give the page numbers; only use if the page(s) referred to were more than one page ) = 324-327 (IMPORTANT - Use "page" or "pages" but not both.) url (uniform resource locator, i.e. your web address in layman's terms)
accessdate=The day you accessed it on the web
Ah yes,
ref name=some phrase you think off to link your common list-defined references.
Hope this helps,
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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