Subject: Re: Is there a citation function?
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Posted on: 2010-01-25 13:48:00 UTC
Personally, that's long bugged me about TVTropes. They're perfectly within their rights to say "[Webcomic] used this trope several times" or "Used to great effect in a [Particular Canon] fanfic, when..." More often than not I find myself wanting to see, but links are sometimes all too rare.
I was browsing earlier and it randomly occurred to me that we don't cite sources very often. There are some articles which link to the missions (or handbook/interlude/whatever) where the item or event or random personality quirk appears, but not often.
May I politely ask that we start to cite a little more? This isn't pointing fingers - I'm guilty of it myself, and it's hardly a tragic omission - but sometimes I find myself wanting to read the context and having no idea where to start.
Just saying.
I've never been able to find one, which means 'cite sources' turns into 'list them at the end'.
hS
I've seen a few citations on our wiki before, though not many. But if nothing else, we could just make hypertext links within the articles, I guess.
There's a reference pseudo-HTML tag which is compatible with the PPC wikia page. It's used by putting the text you want in a citation such as <ref>This is the text you want within the cite</ref>, and then place the <references /> tag where you want them to show up.
There's a sample Litmus Strip page if you want one that can be edited with.
Sorry, that last sentence should linking to :
There's a sample Litmus Strip page if you want one that can be edited with.
I honestly thought it was a No Accountability thing, a la TVTropes.
Personally, that's long bugged me about TVTropes. They're perfectly within their rights to say "[Webcomic] used this trope several times" or "Used to great effect in a [Particular Canon] fanfic, when..." More often than not I find myself wanting to see, but links are sometimes all too rare.