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

[David Gerard]

On 02/09/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote:

>    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.


Indeed. As with the stub-sorting project, if we have reasonably sane
people who care sorting this out and working out what seems a good
idea that will go over okay, then we will easily reach whatever level
of detail people actually care about.


- d.