That sounds like a really good idea, and we could
use a formal
wikiproject to encourage people to help establish these citation
collections. I'm starting a draft at [[User:Draicone/WikiProject
Reference Help]] if anyone wants to help. If we get a decent plan we
can move it to the WP space.
On 9/3/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
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.
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