Forgotten Realms Wiki talk:Help-Citing sources

Reference Names
"Note that this will only work if the full citation appears before any shortened ones, although you can use the shortened format many times in one article if necessary."

- Help:Citing sources

Hurtzbad 07:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This is not technically correct. The current (as of 01/09/2008) version of wiki in use only requires the full (for example) appear somewhere in the text (before the, I believe) Can I suggest it be changed to "Note that this will only work if the full citation appears somewhere before the reference section. You can use the shortened format many times in one article if necessary."

Danilo Thann
in the page referring to the masked lords of waterdeep Danilo Thann is cited as "Danilo Thann: Masked Lord, cousin of Khelben Arunsun" in the book Elfsong page 21 2nd paragraph 4th line Khelben is referenced as his uncle NOT cousin.

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Citation Template Proposal
After accidentally creating a new citation template for "Player's Handbook, 3.5 Edition" because I missed it in the template list due to irregularities in the way the citation templates were named, I propose that we revamp the way the Core Rulebooks are listed in the citation template. Currently, there doesn't appear to be a standardized way they are input for their nomenclature; reference the various ways the PH & DMG are entered by various edition. What I would think would work best would be one of the two following methods for naming the templates for the core rulebooks. First, the longhand format:
 * Players Handbook, 1st Edition
 * * NOTE: 1st Edition did not include an apostrophe in its nomenclature.
 * Player's Handbook, 2nd Edition
 * Player's Handbook, 2nd Edition (Revised)
 * Player's Handbook, 3rd Edition
 * Player's Handbook, 3.5 Edition
 * Player's Handbook, 4th Edition

Here is the same sort of standardized entry scheme with a shortened version:
 * Players Handbook 1.0
 * Player's Handbook 2.0
 * Player's Handbook 2.0 (Revised)
 * Player's Handbook 3.0
 * Player's Handbook 3.5
 * Player's Handbook 4.0

On the plus side, this should make future references easier and can be carried over into new citation templates whose sourcebooks have multiple editions also.

On the not-so-good side, this will probably break a few citation links causing us need to repair them. Thoughts anyone? --Crazyhorse75 09:08, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

About cite consistency
Maybe it's not a big deal, but I've seen several section names (Sources, References and Notes) used indistinctly and interchangeably in the wiki for the Notes and References sections mentioned in this article: