Talk:Lise with a Parasol

Short citations
I noticed that User:Viriditas took great effort to convert plain short citations to clickable links. IMO this is a positive step; however, the method chosen is quite odd and will make it difficult for future editors to continue – which they are obliged to do following WP:CITEVAR. I suggest to replace the custom citation anchors currently used with standard templates sfn and harvnb that are designed for this purpose. This would also require that all cited works use some cite book or cite journal or other appropriate templates. This will make it easier for future editors to maintain the chosen citation style. And yes, I'm volunteering. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:14, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, I’ve stopped using all forms of citation templates (as you can clearly see) because I went through a lot of problems getting the template maintainers to fix their templates when they broke many years ago. At the time, they refused, and dozens of pages that I had worked on had broken templates for a very long time.  The maintainers of the templates claimed that these were just error messages,  meaning that editors had to fix previously correct template usage due to the whims of the template maintainers, who could break hundreds of articles whenever they made a change, thereby introducing "error messages" that others had to fix.  Having discussed the issue with the maintainers and come to no resolution (or realization on their part that the problem was solely caused by their changes) I decided to never use those templates ever again on a page that I created, forcing me to find a way to duplicate the functionality of the template in an altogether different way in plain text, hence the result you see.  I actually think it is easier to maintain the current style, as they are not subject to future template changes which can lead to broken citations.  Now, with all that said, I am not against switching to an even better format than old citation templates, such as one that draws upon Wikidata. So if you have something new and improved in mind, I’m definitely open to it, but I don’t want to go back to the old citation template format. Viriditas (talk) 03:21, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You've got MOS:CITEVAR on your side, and I think citations using Wikidata, like Cite Q, are fraught. Thank you for your response, and I won't pursue the matter. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:31, 5 November 2023 (UTC)