Reacting on Stephen Gilbert's "possible bug report", I went through searching for other pages that also contain w: links. As such I got to [[Wikipedia:Cite your sources]]. And from the page talk it seems that everyone but 24 agreed with it at the time. Nowadays I see _noone_ citing sources on a regular basis (or even an irregular basis). Would it not be time to remove this 'Rule to consider', or else at least change the 'Talk' page such that it is clear that it is not a majority opinion nowadays?

Andre Engels

Well, it's part of:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines

And going to [[Wikipedia:cite_your_sources]] seems to contemplate citing sources on the article page.

It seems pretty clear how to cite internet sources, but not too clear on what language to use to cite paper sources, except perhaps in a separate bibiliography section at the very bottom, perphaps in addition to further reading. It is possible to create footnotes for paper sources, but a tiny bit complicated. I guess those who can should start. The internet footnotes create automatically if one does it right. I guess it would be a good standard and the more of these articles are around the faster everyone will catch on.

Fred