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The discussion about the Dragon magazine citation format got me playing around with the templates and I'd like to propose changing the {{Cite book}}, {{Cite dragon}}, and {{Cite dungeon}} templates a little bit. I am roughly following the guidelines given by the Wikipedia book and Wikipedia Journal templates, although in a much simpler implementation. In a nutshell, I have made a new template, User:Moviesign/Template:Cite publication, that is called by new Book, Dragon, and Dungeon templates. The Book template is User:Moviesign/Template:Cite book and the Dragon template is User:Moviesign/Template:Cite dragon (the Dungeon template will be nearly identical to the Dragon template). Both of those links show a number of examples of what the citations will look like given various inputs. You can edit the files to see the inner workings and to try out your own examples: just change the parameters and use Preview to see the results.
Oh, I see I have one more thing to change: I need to make date and year interchangeable for backward compatibility. I'll fix that.
Is this format acceptable? Suggestions?