Template talk:Cite book/Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate

Wouldn't it be better if this was changed to include the entire manual? Not for the sake of adding crunch, but so we can add actual page citations (also so we can add citation templates for manuals for other games, whilst keeping things nice and uniform). I'll go ahead unless there's objections. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 08:30, March 6, 2016 (UTC)


 * The template is already set up to accept page numbers and/or chapter numbers, it just assumes that the only non-crunchy details that someone would want to cite are in the "Volo's Guide" section. If that is not the case, then you could change the link to point to the entire article instead of the subsection and rename the template. I don't quite understand your second point (starting with "also"). If there are non-crunchy tidbits in other game manuals, and we don't yet have a template to cite them, feel free to add them on a case by case basis. However, I wouldn't waste the effort if the template is not likely to be used. This one doesn't link anywhere, for example. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 14:06, March 6, 2016 (UTC)
 * I was leafing through a bunch of FR game manuals from the late 90s and noticed pretty much all of them had lore sections. Given the nature of RPGs, it might in certain cases be easier to cite lore from a specific page in a manual than citing the entire game as a source. At any rate, it's probably more accurate for this template (and future manual citation templates) to be named after the publication itself rather than just a subsection. That's what I was trying to get across. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 14:26, March 6, 2016 (UTC)