Would it make sense to start a WikiProject for organising skilled
labour that can take basic data submitted by users and insert it into
articles in the form of cite templates in <ref>'s?
On 9/2/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The cite templates are byzantine. I'm not
going to figure them all out
any more than I'm going to learn every variety of stub template - I
know a few, but often I'll just put {{stub}} and let someone who wants
to pick the precisely correct one. I hope this comes across more as
"division of labour" than "too lazy to do it properly" ;-)
Part of the Wiki way is the fact that your work doesn't have to be
'finished' before you put it up.
In terms of the cite templates, someone who knows nothing about the
actual reference should be able to turn a handwritten reference line
into a templated one, so those who care about that can do it
themselves.
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.
-Matt
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