Category talk:Citation templates

I propose a new category for Adventure citation templates, for templates such as Template:Cite book/Hordes of Dragonspear and the like. What does everyone else think? Cronje 14:31, August 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * I was thinking that during my clean up, but decided that some sourcebooks would be too difficult to categorise. A lot of adventures, like Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave, have some sourcebook-type material at the back, while Dragons of Faerûn and Mysteries of the Moonsea mingle adventure and sourcebook materials interchangeably.


 * Plus it would be annoying to update them all. :) — BadCatMan (talk) 11:16, September 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Of course, we could have two categories per page. — BadCatMan (talk) 01:37, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Clean up
I've sorted all the stray uncategorised citation templates into their proper categories. Let me know if something went wrong. Later I'll look at checking the alphabetisation. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:16, September 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * I got annoyed hunting around for citation templates, hence the clean-up effort. I've been checking the alphabetisations of these, renaming some due to misspelling or non-standard formats, and putting deletion notices on those that are incorrect or duplicated. -- BadCatMan (talk) 12:13, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Nice work you are doing there.. Keep it up. I did some also...in the books section conserning "the"... Jandor (talk ⋅ contribs ) 12:25, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Great! Now I'm not the only one! -- BadCatMan (talk) 12:40, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * In the world of internet, you can't never be the only one..:) Jandor (talk ⋅ contribs ) 12:54, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Great work!!! I actually spent some time editing all the "THE" pages... such as The Pink Piggy Inn or The Wild Wooly Tavern (names have been changed to protect the innocent)... I have only had three of editors undo them, because the sourcebooks have the "THE"... it is good to have compulsive editors on this wiki :) Darkwynters (talk) 17:51, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Of course, if "The" is in the name and capitalized, then it should be in the article title. It's only in the alphabetical order that "the" can be skipped" over. — BadCatMan (talk) 01:37, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Note for others working on these: I've checked Category:Novel citation templates up to and including R. -- BadCatMan (talk) 11:12, September 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * I've finished checking Dragon, Game, Novel, Web and Web Enhancement citation templates. That leaves pretty much Sourcebook and Dungeon. -- BadCatMan (talk) 12:41, September 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sourcesbooks have been checked. -- BadCatMan (talk) 08:59, September 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * I've now checked alphabetisation for all the citation templates, and categories for all those I know of. There were some duplicates I've either turned into redirects or put up for deletion, and things that didn't fit the standard naming format that I either renamed or put up for deletion. This should be much tidier and more user-friendly now.


 * There may be a larger project here of checking that every single template follows a universal format, full name, correct details.. but ugh. -- BadCatMan (talk) 11:15, September 24, 2012 (UTC)

Cite document template?
So, I am planning to create some articles about ethnicities of Malatra, and the sources with all of the official information are pdf documents released by Wizards of the Coast for the RPGA but never published as books. (They are high-quality with images and everything. They could have been books.)

Do I make a Cite book template? Or do I use Cite publication directly? Or do I make a new class of citation template, such as Cite pdf or Cite document? Thoughts? ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:20, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * I like the idea of a Cite pdf but only if it's used for documents that are only available in a pdf ... and not pdf versions of published sourcebooks that have hardcopies.Artemaz (talk) 19:34, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * Aren't you getting them from the web? Wouldn't you just use Cite web? &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 19:38, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * MS, I suppose I could just use Cite web, but one can get anything from the web. I think of Cite web as for citations of websites or web sources. These documents are not web sources any more than the free pdf version of Lands of Intrigue I have is a web source; they were unpublished books handed out or sent to people playing in the RPGA. ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:47, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, if they are available on the web, then I'd like for there to be a link that users can click and download. The more people who know about it, and the more downloads that WotC sees, the better. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 20:28, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, a link would be great. In this case, however, the webpages are no longer supported, and they were freely available from RPGA sites, not directly from WotC. One has to get them from various archive sites these days. ~ Lhynard (talk) 20:36, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * Art, that makes sense, yes. ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:47, August 26, 2015 (UTC)

It seems the only precedent here for such things used Cite book:
 * Cite book/Bestiary of the Realms: Volume 1
 * Cite book/Bestiary of the Realms: Volume 2

~ Lhynard (talk) 19:50, August 26, 2015 (UTC)