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**Author:** `wiki_ra` **Description:** During a discussion on citation styles at the Village Pump on the en.wiki, a number of editors expressed a dislike for citation templates. I greatly like them for a number of reasons (e.g. they help users unused to citing sources to do so properly, the lend to a consistent citation style, they make data that is naturally suitable to being machine readable comprehendible to a machine as discrete data, etc.). The frequent source of the dislike mentioned by others was the time it takes a long time to transclude many such citation templates in a heavily cited page. I suggested enhancing Cite.php to do the citation templating. The method I suggest is as follows: --- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<ref name="murphy" /> == References == <references> <ref first="John" last="Murphy" title="Quisque Quis Orci Magna" publisher="Printing House Press" location="London" year="2009" page="55" isbn="978-3-16-148410-0" /> </references> --- The above example renders the citation as follows: J. Murphy. Quisque Quis Orci Magna. Printing House Press: London. 2009. Page 55. ISBN: 978-3-16-148410-0 I have a working example of the code necessary to implement this in a rudimentary manner at: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Rannpháirt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php It does not break current usage of Cite.php. I'd be happy to continue development on this if it was picked up. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement **URL**: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rannph%C3%A1irt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php

**Author:** `wiki_ra` **Description:** During a discussion on citation styles at the Village Pump on the en.wiki, a number of editors expressed a dislike for citation templates. I greatly like them for a number of reasons (e.g. they help users unused to citing sources to do so properly, the lend to a consistent citation style, they make data that is naturally suitable to being machine readable comprehendible to a machine as discrete data, etc.). The frequent source of the dislike mentioned by others was the time it takes a long time to transclude many such citation templates in a heavily cited page. I suggested enhancing Cite.php to do the citation templating. The method I suggest is as follows: ``` Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<ref name="murphy" /> == References == <references> <ref first="John" last="Murphy" title="Quisque Quis Orci Magna" publisher="Printing House Press" location="London" year="2009" page="55" isbn="978-3-16-148410-0" /> </references> ``` The above example renders the citation as follows: J. Murphy. Quisque Quis Orci Magna. Printing House Press: London. 2009. Page 55. ISBN: 978-3-16-148410-0 I have a working example of the code necessary to implement this in a rudimentary manner at: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Rannpháirt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php It does not break current usage of Cite.php. I'd be happy to continue development on this if it was picked up. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement **URL**: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rannph%C3%A1irt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php

**Author:** `wiki_ra` **Description:** During a discussion on citation styles at the Village Pump on the en.wiki, a number of editors expressed a dislike for citation templates. I greatly like them for a number of reasons (e.g. they help users unused to citing sources to do so properly, the lend to a consistent citation style, they make data that is naturally suitable to being machine readable comprehendible to a machine as discrete data, etc.). The frequent source of the dislike mentioned by others was the time it takes a long time to transclude many such citation templates in a heavily cited page. I suggested enhancing Cite.php to do the citation templating. The method I suggest is as follows: --- ``` Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<ref name="murphy" /> == References == <references> <ref first="John" last="Murphy" title="Quisque Quis Orci Magna" publisher="Printing House Press" location="London" year="2009" page="55" isbn="978-3-16-148410-0" /> </references> ---``` The above example renders the citation as follows: J. Murphy. Quisque Quis Orci Magna. Printing House Press: London. 2009. Page 55. ISBN: 978-3-16-148410-0 I have a working example of the code necessary to implement this in a rudimentary manner at: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Rannpháirt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php It does not break current usage of Cite.php. I'd be happy to continue development on this if it was picked up. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement **URL**: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rannph%C3%A1irt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php