Wikipedia:Citing sources: Revision history

12 April 2024

• curprev 20:4620:46, 12 April 2024‎ A mentally disabled mathematician talk contribs‎ m 92,997 bytes +1‎ →‎How to create the list of citations: fix broken link

9 April 2024

• curprev 09:1409:14, 9 April 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 92,996 bytes −5‎ Undid revision 1218021395 by EnTerbury (talk) – since the ellipsis is presumably just a placeholder for "more text" here, there's no need for NBSP before it Tag: Undo
• curprev 07:5507:55, 9 April 2024‎ EnTerbury talk contribs‎ 93,001 bytes +5‎ Undid revision 1217234561 by EnTerbury (talk) Tags: Undo Reverted

7 April 2024

• curprev 18:2918:29, 7 April 2024‎ FeRDNYC talk contribs‎ m 92,996 bytes −2‎ →‎Linking to Google Books pages: Removing the random, inexplicable indent from one paragraph, as I proposed in Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 53#Random_not-an-admonishment_formatting to no objection (or, it must be said, comment at all) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

4 April 2024

• curprev 17:0317:03, 4 April 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ m 92,998 bytes −8‎ →‎What information to include: Use en dash for range
• curprev 16:5016:50, 4 April 2024‎ EnTerbury talk contribs‎ 93,006 bytes −5‎ →‎What information to include: ambiguity
• curprev 16:3416:34, 4 April 2024‎ EnTerbury talk contribs‎ m 93,011 bytes −5‎ →‎How to place an inline citation using ref tags: doesnt really make sense to have it there after all the spaces upfront Tag: Reverted

29 March 2024

• curprev 13:1513:15, 29 March 2024‎ Nikkimaria talk contribs‎ 93,016 bytes −122‎ as per previous, please take to talk Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 06:0706:07, 29 March 2024‎ Locke Cole talk contribs‎ m 93,138 bytes +122‎ Undid revision 1216118620 by Nikkimaria (talk) Tags: Undo Reverted
• curprev 04:5104:51, 29 March 2024‎ Nikkimaria talk contribs‎ 93,016 bytes −122‎ rv per talk Tags: Manual revert Reverted

28 March 2024

• curprev 15:4415:44, 28 March 2024‎ Locke Cole talk contribs‎ 93,138 bytes +122‎ →‎Preventing and repairing dead links: per talk, merely creating an archive is not sufficient if nobody knows it exists Tag: Reverted

23 March 2024

• curprev 02:0802:08, 23 March 2024‎ HouseBlaster talk contribs‎ 93,016 bytes +49‎ →‎What information to include: that confused me for a second... note that X was formerly known as Twitter

29 February 2024

• curprev 19:1919:19, 29 February 2024‎ FeRDNYC talk contribs‎ m 92,967 bytes +16‎ →‎Duplicate citations: Refer to primary/most-detailed source of information about citing page numbers in sources, since "the previous section" is vague and it doesn't really contain any useful description anyway. Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

28 February 2024

• curprev 18:1818:18, 28 February 2024‎ CapnZapp talk contribs‎ 92,951 bytes +134‎ →‎In-text attribution: several sources recommend or mandate attribution for those sources. I feel a link back is useful

3 February 2024

• curprev 18:2818:28, 3 February 2024‎ WhatamIdoing talk contribs‎ 92,817 bytes +229‎ →‎Variation in citation methods: As it says at the top, if you don't get the citation format right, someone else can fix it. Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

17 January 2024

• curprev 14:3214:32, 17 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,588 bytes +59‎ →‎Parenthetical referencing: There's actually a lot of this stuff remaining to be cleaned up.

13 January 2024

• curprev 20:4320:43, 13 January 2024‎ Nikkimaria talk contribs‎ 92,529 bytes +153‎ restore, linked discussion doesn't support that Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 20:2820:28, 13 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,376 bytes −45‎ Ditto, and {{ran}} is another {{rp}} wrapper. Tag: Reverted
• curprev 20:1720:17, 13 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,421 bytes −108‎ →‎Short and full citations: Stop recommending {{r}}, which is a wrapper for {{rp}}, which is a form of inline parenthetical referencing, which as a class was deprecated by the community in 2022. Tag: Reverted
• curprev 20:1520:15, 13 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,529 bytes 0‎ →‎Short and full citations: Recommend by default the versions of these templates that produce output consistent with that of the CS1 templates ({{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.), which are the vast majority of our citations, instead of recommending the versions that match the nearing-extinction CS2 {{citation}} template. Tag: Reverted

11 January 2024

• curprev 21:3721:37, 11 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,529 bytes −2‎ more of a case study than a general how-to

30 December 2023

• curprev 17:1117:11, 30 December 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 92,531 bytes +9‎ →‎Duplicate reference finders: ignore dups listed as worldcat
• curprev 08:0708:07, 30 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,522 bytes 0‎ →‎Generally considered helpful: hyphen makes that easier to parse as two distinctly meaningful uses of "name[d]", instead of redundant
• curprev 08:0008:00, 30 December 2023‎ DrKay talk contribs‎ 92,522 bytes −1‎ try writing in English
• curprev 05:1305:13, 30 December 2023‎ Thinker78 talk contribs‎ 92,523 bytes +16‎ Undid revision 1192313274 by DrKay (talk) even if the same info is repeated, it could be in another paragraph, which may be even be several sections away, giving the impression of being uncited. Citing again is not cluttering but avoiding confusion. Tag: Undo

28 December 2023

• curprev 18:4918:49, 28 December 2023‎ DrKay talk contribs‎ 92,507 bytes −16‎ No edit summary Tag: Reverted
• curprev 18:1118:11, 28 December 2023‎ Nightscream talk contribs‎ 92,523 bytes +2‎ ce

21 December 2023

• curprev 16:1816:18, 21 December 2023‎ Ahecht talk contribs‎ 92,521 bytes +74‎ →‎How to create the list of citations: example

19 December 2023

• curprev 21:5021:50, 19 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 92,447 bytes +128‎ →‎Parenthetical referencing: hatnote

17 December 2023

• curprev 16:1216:12, 17 December 2023‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ 92,319 bytes −1‎ →‎Notes and references section: remove possessive apostrophe from the non-possessive "dedicated citations section"

13 December 2023

• curprev 06:1406:14, 13 December 2023‎ Sawyer-mcdonell talk contribs‎ m 92,320 bytes +1‎ →‎Citation style: add comma Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 04:4704:47, 13 December 2023‎ Headbomb talk contribs‎ 92,319 bytes −3‎ Restored revision 1189646754 by Remsense (talk): Previous version is clearer, and the contrast is between where and how, not where and obtained Tags: Twinkle Undo
• curprev 04:0404:04, 13 December 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 92,322 bytes +3‎ →‎Say where you read it: better emphasizing the distinction of how vs. where you got it Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 03:5803:58, 13 December 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 92,319 bytes −2‎ →‎Dealing with unsourced material: no need to scare-quotes a reified term with a specific meaning on-wiki Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 03:5003:50, 13 December 2023‎ A3nm talk contribs‎ 92,321 bytes +272‎ →‎Citation generation tools: +2017 editor Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

9 December 2023

• curprev 18:4918:49, 9 December 2023‎ Swood100 talk contribs‎ 92,049 bytes +33‎ →‎Citation generation tools: Added "See also" link to Help:Citation tools, which has a different assortment of citation generation tools

8 December 2023

• curprev 00:5800:58, 8 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ m 92,016 bytes −1‎ hyphen; code error fix

7 December 2023

• curprev 13:3913:39, 7 December 2023‎ Nemo bis talk contribs‎ 92,017 bytes −60‎ "reasonably certain" of non-infringement doesn't prima facie contradict "no reason to believe" infringement; please explain the difference on the talk page Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 12:4312:43, 7 December 2023‎ ActivelyDisinterested talk contribs‎ 92,077 bytes +60‎ →‎Convenience links: The language here and at WP:ELNEVER seem to be at odds. Any reason to beleive copyvio is a reason to exclude copyvio, this seems a higher standard than "reasonably certain" to include it. Tag: Reverted
• curprev 11:5311:53, 7 December 2023‎ Nemo bis talk contribs‎ 92,017 bytes +5‎ →‎Convenience links: not just publishers; the original rights holders include employers etc.

5 December 2023

• curprev 06:5706:57, 5 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ m 92,012 bytes +4‎ make is clearer in the source which hatnote is being used

4 December 2023

• curprev 20:1820:18, 4 December 2023‎ Johnmarkh talk contribs‎ m 92,008 bytes +31‎ →‎When and why to cite sources: added 'further info' for consistency
• curprev 01:5401:54, 4 December 2023‎ Nardog talk contribs‎ 91,977 bytes −438‎ -dead links

16 November 2023

• curprev 15:3815:38, 16 November 2023‎ BobKilcoyne talk contribs‎ m 92,415 bytes +1‎ Should read: "as it appears"
• curprev 06:3206:32, 16 November 2023‎ JPxG talk contribs‎ 92,414 bytes −24‎ →‎Preventing and repairing dead links: a little confusing to have a search query for wikipedia itself -- you'd never actually want to do this when trying to cite sources

4 November 2023

• curprev 18:5718:57, 4 November 2023‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 92,438 bytes +17‎ Change http links to https (except for one that doesn't support it)°
• curprev 03:0703:07, 4 November 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 92,421 bytes +2‎ →‎Avoid embedded links: should also make the text agree with the link Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 02:2802:28, 4 November 2023‎ Mach61 talk contribs‎ 92,419 bytes +2‎ →‎Avoid embedded links: apple has a different privacy policy to us

3 November 2023

• curprev 14:3314:33, 3 November 2023‎ Flamingraptor talk contribs‎ 92,417 bytes −5‎ No edit summary

27 October 2023

• curprev 01:5901:59, 27 October 2023‎ Preimage talk contribs‎ m 92,422 bytes +42‎ →‎Linking to Google Books pages: Citation Maker broken link - switch to archived site (confirmed still works)