[Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links

[ScottL]

   It is not a matter of learning any specific cite template that is the 
problem.  All of them have sufficient documentation to make them usable. 
  The problem is that in about 80% of the cases that I have used them 
(almost always referring to a web page of varying degrees of 
officialness and sometimes news web pages) the correct cite template to 
use is very very very far from obvious.

SKL

Akash Mehta wrote:
> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard at 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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