User:Alan Liefting/On The Easy Of Adding References Or Otherwise

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This is a resource page for referencing issues.

Methods

 * ref name and then full ref as footnote
 * makes it hard to split page.

Issues

 * ease of adding to articles
 * reliable sources of bibliographical metadata
 * simplfying the wikitext. (wadin thought it can be daunting)
 * avoiding vandalism
 * avoiding good faith edits that leave damaged code
 * ensuring sufficient bibliographical data is added
 * giving a consistent "feel" of "look" to WP citations
 * allowing biblio metadata to be pulled out via CoinS
 * does not work if a ref template is used.
 * archiving urls

Policies and guidelines

 * Citing sources

Tools

 * RefToolbar
 * RefToolbar 1.0
 * RefToolbar 2.0


 * Auto filled with a bot
 * Cite doi
 * Cite jstor
 * Cite hdl (not autofilled)
 * Cite pmid
 * Cite pmc (to be avoided-bots not 100% compatible)
 * Cite isbn (maybe?)


 * External
 * reftag
 * ProveIt

Some ideas
Can the operation of RefToolbar 2.0 be changed so that the following happens: This system could be set up for ISBN, pmid, etc as well.
 * when, for example, the doi number xxxx is entered it will look up (in this case pulled from Category:Cite doi templates) to fill in the fields. If the doi number does not have a WP template then data is grabbed from external sources.
 * If it is a new doi number then a new template is created and added to Category:Cite doi templates.

hmmmm, is it worthwhile creating out own database???? The stuff is already elesewhere.


 * An earlier idea

expands out templates such as cite doi, cite pmid out to a cite template as I understand it. There are some reasons why I don't think it should be done:
 * Citation bot and expanding citations
 * The handling of the


 * than this

I cannot see any reasons for not tanscuding the cite doi, pmid templates directly into a page. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Page splitting might be easier
 * Vandalism might be easier to control.
 * global updates of a references can easily be done
 * ensures a consistency in formatting.