User talk:Marika yuzu

Welcome to our wiki family!
Hello Marika! Welcome to Wikipedia and our author team!

I'm really happy that you decided to join the project. I know that the first steps can be quite overwhelming, so here are some tipps to dive in:
 * General info page about editing
 * Quick guide for editing with Wiki Markup
 * Teahouse – the no. 1 place for newcomers to ask questions
 * Current to-do list for Yuzu's main biography article

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I hope, I can be of help.

Best wishes Henni147 (talk) 17:28, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Henni! Thank you for inviting me to join your team! I feel honoured to be a member of such a highly respected group of authors. I hope I can make useful contributions towards the project. Thank you for the tips- I shall study them in detail to familiarise myself with how things are done. I look forward to working with the whole team!
 * Best wishes, Marika yuzu 18:17, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Overview
This guide shows you the citation system that we use on Hanyu's page series. It is a bit more complex than some other alternatives, but it has the following great advantages: Here is an example of a typical prose and reference section with the Wiki markup text on the left and the rendered output on the right:
 * We generally place full citations of sources in the reference section, not in the prose part of the article. This makes the Wiki markup text much easier to read and edit. In the prose sections, we only use short citation templates.
 * Print sources are separated from digital sources, both in the Wiki markup text and the rendered output, which makes them easy to find. Digital sources are listed in the sub-section "Citations", print sources in the sub-section "Books and magazines cited".
 * In the Wiki markup, the cited sources are sorted chronologically by their publication date (and alphabetically by the publisher's initials if published on the same day). This makes the search for single sources very easy and prevents the unintentional addition of duplicate sources.
 * We use a special ID for digital sources, which is unambiguous and easy to generate: Publisher's initials + publication date Example: "NA220720" is the ID for an online news article published by Nikkei Asia on 2022-07-20.


 * Wiki markup

Prose section (excerpt)
Various news outlets and magazines such as Nikkei Asia and International Figure Skating noted that Hanyu's exit from the competitive circuit marks the "end of an era".

Books and magazines cited



 * Renders as

Various news outlets and magazines such as Nikkei Asia and International Figure Skating noted that Hanyu's exit from the competitive circuit marks the "end of an era".



Inline citations in prose part
We generally use the r-template for digital and the sfn-template for print sources. If you take a look at the examples in the right column, the templates are really friendly to use. There are optional parameters for quotes etc., but I want to limit this guide to the basic templates here. In the final output, these templates all render like this,[1] with an anchor link to the full source in the reference section. These inline citation anchors should generally be placed right after a punctuation with no spacing between them.

Here is an ID list for the most commonly used digital sources on Hanyu's page series: Note: For sources like GQ, AERA, NHK, NBC or ISU the ID is identical to their standard abbreviation.

Full sources in reference section
This is the general structure of the reference section in the Wiki markup text. The only thing for you to do here is to add new citation templates either with enclosing ref-tags (citation section) or with a preceding bullet (books/magazines section).

Books and magazines cited


Note: Under "general websites" we usually list sources either with unknown publication date or regular updates. In Wiki articles like Hanyu's main bios page that use many official documents published by the ISU/JSF like competition protocols etc., these sources are listed separately.

Here is an overview of the five types of citation templates that we use. The table and the notes below are a bit overwhelming at first look, but don't be worried. When you have a source that you want to add, you choose the fitting citation type, copy the template, and select the fitting parameters for your source.


 * Parameter notes for online news articles and general websites
 * work: only to be used if the source is not a newspaper or magazine.
 * first/last: name of the author. Examples: or
 * agency: it often happens that newspapers publish articles written by news agencies. Example: Japan Times publishes an article written by Kyodo News. Then we use the parameters
 * language: for us, the most common language abbreviations are ja, en-US, en-GB, and en-CA. If the English dialect is not clear, you can skip this parameter.
 * url-access: for articles behind a permanent paywall we use "subscription", for an article with limited access we use "limited". If the article is free, you can skip this parameter.
 * date: we use the American form like "November 3, 2022".
 * archive date and url: All online sources must be archived, so that the cited information can be accessed at any time. We mostly use the Wayback Machine for this purpose.
 * url-status: if the cited information is no longer available under the given url-address, we use "dead", otherwise "live". This parameter is mandatory.
 * Parameter notes for TV productions (or online videos)
 * medium: it's either "Television production" or "Motion picture". If the source fits none of them, you can skip this parameter.
 * id (TV production): For Japanese TV programs we generally try to find their ID + description on kakaku.com. Example:
 * time: timestamp where the cited event occurred in the program/video. Example: 53s
 * Parameter note for magazines
 * medium: if it's a mook source, add
 * first/last: only to be added if the author of the cited article/chapter is known. If not, use with a short form the magazine title instead.
 * at: chapter number of the magazine, where you can find the cited information.

To close this citation guide, here are two typical examples for an online news article and print magazine article. You can see how the source code and the rendered output look side by side:

Renders as:
 * Template for online news article


 * Template for magazine article

Renders as:

Henni147 (talk) 19:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Henni,
 * Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. As you say, it sounds rather complex. I’ll print them out and use them as reference. I really appreciate your help!
 * Best wishes, Marika yuzu (talk) 23:45, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sure, the guide above looks quite overwhelming right now, but please have no fear to try out the templates shown above. The easiest way to learn the citation system is to take a random online or print source and try to fill out the templates you need for it. If you are unsure what to write for certain parameters, just leave them blank or ping me.
 * My prevailed strategy is: I always look for similar citations (same publisher) that already exist on Yuzu's page series, copy them, and change the few parameters that are different (title, date etc.) This works splendidly in about 90% of the cases.
 * Best wishes and enjoy Prologue this weekend! Henni147 (talk) 19:18, 3 November 2022 (UTC)