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

[Matt Brown]

On 9/2/06, 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.

I was about to say that there were only a few, and then I checked and
found (like all process) they've multiplied and grown while I wasn't
looking.  That's far too damn many.  OTOH, one doesn't have to use the
complex ones; you can just use a standard cite web or whatever.

-Matt