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