As most of you probably have noticed, most simple citations are being replaced by more complex one.
- Before: The Last Guardian, page page number
- Now: Grubb, Jeff. "chapter number", The Last Guardian, page number. ISBN 978-0-6710-4151-9. “quote text”
The current version is better, no doubt here.
But it's a hell of a mess to have to copy paste all that info again and again, when it's always the same, and doesn't change.
So I decided to create a template, that would output all the info with simply typing the name of the book.
My first "sketch" of it is here: {{source}}
It's very basic: {{Source|<BookName>|<PageNumber>}}. If BookName is empty, a "citation needed" tag appears. If PageNumber is empty, a "??" appears instead. If both fields work properly, it displays "ExtendedBookName, page PageNumber".
It only works for some novels/manga/comics, but should work for every single official material, including games and the RPG.
But I'm having some design doubts, and I'd prefer to clear up them before improving it:
- Should BookName be the complete name of the book?
- Should books that are part of a series have unique name (ie, Sundering) or should they follow the series' name (ie, WotA3)?
- Should monthly comic issues be in, or just the volumes?
- Should I add a new "SourceType" field to make the generation faster? Right now, it has to look for the source between all the existing sources. With a SourceType field, it would look only between manga/novels/comics.
Those are all for now.--Lon-ami (talk) 14:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)