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.