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So here's a proposal I have been thinking about recently: the standardization of citations on this wiki. I've noticed a couple people have different ways of formatting citations; for example, I usually go with the following format [[Help:References|as per here]]: | So here's a proposal I have been thinking about recently: the standardization of citations on this wiki. I've noticed a couple people have different ways of formatting citations; for example, I usually go with the following format [[Help:References|as per here]]: | ||
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{{Support}}. — --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 10:11, 6 September 2017 (EDT) | {{Support}}. — --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 10:11, 6 September 2017 (EDT) | ||
:I'd like to suggest an edit to these. Instead of using "p." we stick to using "page/s" as it would require a huge reconditioning for the wiki for that specific thing. | |||
:And for anthologies I recommend this as the collection is what holds the story. Not the Story holding the collection. | |||
*'''For anthologies''': <code><nowiki><ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 415''</ref></nowiki></code><ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 415''</ref> | |||
:But thats only my ideas. I really wanna push the pages thing though. Bar that I support this.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 10:21, 6 September 2017 (EDT) | |||
{{Support}} — [[User:Spartacus|<span style="color: green; font-family: Segoe Script; font-size: 11pt;" title="Spartacus is an administrator.">'''''Spartacus'''''</span>]] <sup>'''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Talk</span>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Contribs</span>]]'''</sup> 12:02, 6 September 2017 (EDT) | |||
{{Support}} — --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our answer is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 12:16, 6 September 2017 (EDT) | |||
==Example citations== | ==Example citations== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||