Author: Tom_Roche

Description:
summary: please either

• enable a user-friendly way to link from an article's text to Book Sources such that the link in the article displays the book's title (or other text), not the ISBN.

• if already enabled, show how to do so in How_to_edit_a_page

details:

Given an article that mentions a given book, I'd like to better link
from the article to resources about that book. I (et al) have in the
past made links from articles to the Amazon page for a given book.
That allows links that displays a book's title, or other desired
article text, but has obvious problems (e.g. dependence on and
possibly implied preference for a particular vendor). Linking to Book
Sources seems an obvious solution, but its linking currently seems
inflexible. Consider the following usecase:

I read an article about an author that mentions a book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_van_Heerden

For a time LSU told him not to talk to the media, amid concerns that
his book The Storm was endangering federal grant money flowing to

The citation above had no link, so I sought to add one. I know the
book's ISBN=0670037818 and I verified that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0670037818

works. So I try editing as follows:

editor

amid concerns that his book [[0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor

amid concerns that his book [[ISBN 0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor

amid concerns that his book [[BookSources:0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor

amid concerns that his book
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=0670037818
''The Storm''] was

Works, so I went with that, despite being IMHO a kludge. Please allow
a (or document existing) better alternative.

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Severity: enhancement