Extension talk:TemplateAdventures

Looks like a good idea. Are you aware of User:VasilievVV/Extension:InlineScripts? That's another approach to deal with huge cite templates :). Regards, --Church of emacs talk · contrib 15:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Call for examples and suggestions
These template-replacements are generally written according to examples. I therefore call for the people out there to come with examples of usage of the templates existing in the extension (which is #citation: by now) with the desired output.

In addition, ideas for other heavy resource templates are also welcome. --Svippong 16:19, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Or you could buy / borrow a major humanities style guide (the humanities guides generally cover all possible citations, and all permutations) and systematically walk through the required fields in a highly documented style guide like Chicago. Fifelfoo 23:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Worried about ossifying something that is broken
I fully understand why you are doing this, and I support it. However, I am worried that this might prevent our references style from ever being repaired. Consider this wiki code:



Here is what it produces:


 * Ann Orther; Anne Uther (2011), "What's a title?", Journal of Artificial Citations: 42
 * Sam Riter (2011), How About A Book For A Change?, New Jeans: Levi & Levi, p. 42
 * Why does the year look so different here?, World Wide Websites Inc., 2011

We have been working with this for years, but it is just not acceptable in the long run. On Wikipedia there is no valid reason to introduce the page number sometimes with "p. " and sometimes with ":". On Wikipedia there is no valid reason to put the year sometimes in parentheses and sometimes not. Someone has copied a kludgy, historically grown citation style that tries to cram everything into as little space as possible and has moved it into an environment where consistency is a lot more important than space. Will your extension be flexible enough so that such issues of style can be fixed without changing it? Hans Adler 16:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)