Forum:Citations

A while ago, RSK left me a message on my talk page about standardizing citations with a template. I thought this was a great idea, so I created one and tested it in the wiki sandbox. I just created the actual template, Template:Citation, very recently. I tried it out on the Mobile Chick Flick page and found that it is much easier to just copy and paste the details from the Nitrome blog post into the template parameters than to type it all out. Plus, as RSK pointed out, it is much easier to modify the template than to modify every single citation the wiki.

Anyway, you can look at the source code of the template (a very simple switch statement, essentially), and change it as you like. It is very easy to add different types of sources, as right now there are just blog posts, tweets, and video citations. Here is the syntax for the template in case you want to use it as well:

Shortened syntax:

So, shall we use this template officially on the wiki? --  18:16, December 28, 2013 (UTC)