User:John Broughton/Citation options

Note: the term "footnotes" seems to be losing currency; use "citation" instead.

See:

* Help:Shortened footnotes (with and efn)
 * User:SallyScot/Sandbox
 * Citing sources
 * Harvard citation template examples (undefined is one example of this.)
 * Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6
 * My November (December?) 2007 survey, posted at the talk page of WP:CITE (I think)
 * Parenthetical referencing
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Efn and Notelist

Options as to what an editor sees in the body of the text:
 * I. Basic tags with full citation information; sometimes with no information [in conjunction with or in the "References" (or similar) section] This is the most common format.
 * II. tags (in conjunction with ; for example, the "Note" group
 * III. [[#NameDate| Name (date) (in conjunction with Full citation information (*not* two-way?)
 * IV. Harvard citation templates -, , , etc
 * V. Embedded link (in conjunction with separate "References" section)

Options as to what a reader sees after clicking on a link:


 * A. Full citation in references section
 * B. Full information in "Notes" section.
 * C. Partial citation (name and date) with link to full citation in another section. The link can be done (a) (done using a wikilink in the partial citation and a (to create an anchor along with citation formatting) in the other section; an
 * D. Partial citation with no link to full citation (which is in a separate section)

Link between initial (partial) citation (in "Notes" section, typically) and the full citation (in the "References" section)
 * i. Yes, one-way, done via wikilink and a anchor in separate section, or via the citation template.
 * ii. No

Thoughts: either put this into a table (?), or make into a simple list (of all feasible parameters: (4 x 4 x 2) + 1 = 33 (max), with examples (either recent or Featured articles) for each, as in:


 * IA (article, article, article) (easy to find)
 * ICi (article, article, ... )
 * IIICi (Finnish Civil War, article, article)
 * IV (article, article, ... ) (find via template pages)
 * V (Pope Francis)

May be hard to find some examples (so post a request at WP:VP); table may not be exhaustive (so get feedback).

Q: Is it possible to create an example page that uses I through IV simultaneously?

Note: take a look at Regrading in Seattle; some items in the "Notes" section link to the next section; some do not.