- From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:02:50 +0100
2009/6/3 Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus at gmail.com>: > Newspaper articles are cited a LOT; they're all over the place on > wikipedia. And this doesn't even get into patents, or hearing > transcripts, or legal opinions, or films. We need to be able to > represent all of these, and bibtex is of little help here. I was about to mention Wikipedia! The citation templates there would be an excellent set of examples of what a citation format would need to cover in practical use. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Citation_templates There's a lot there, but many aren't that heavily used. You can see how many uses there are of a template, or if there are any at all, by going to the template page and clicking on "What links here" in the sidebar. The ones whose name starts "Template:Cite ..." include the biggies. These constitute a bunch of special cases, but you'll be pleased to know that similar templates tend to get combined with time. I certainly wouldn't suggest a set of special cases in a spec for this. But these will be useful for ideas and examples of what sort of citations are in demand on the web. - d.
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