Template talk:EGA

Use with parenthetical references and shortened footnotes
Would anyone object to the following?

I would like to add this line: ref={{harvid|EGA {{{book}}}} to each instances of cite journal.

This would allow editors to create a shortened footnote using only * rather than the more complicated "computerese" of This technique would also automatically combine identical footnotes, and would allow bots to detect when the full citation has been forgotten.

Similarly, it would allow the creation of linked parenthetical references using only

I noticed this in the article Formally étale morphism. This article's citation method seems unnecessarily complicated to me. CharlesGillingham (talk) 18:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that was my edit. Your method looks much simpler, so please go ahead with it. I just did the only thing I knew how to do. Thanks. RobHar (talk) 20:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh good, then I'm talking to the right person. I have two questions. First, is it okay if I omit the subscripts? E.g., is this okay?
 * Article text.
 * and . (I.e., essentially like the ones in formally étale morphism).
 * and . (I.e., essentially like the ones in formally étale morphism).


 * (Sfn won't work here, at least not now, because it can't handle . There are plans to upgrade sfn and harvid to handle cases like this. If so, then we could use , with all the advantages of sfn.  CharlesGillingham (talk) 07:02, 20 January 2011 (UTC)