Forum:Citation cleanup

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internal references

I started cleanup of Category:Citation Missing and encountered 3277th Imperial Marine Regiment. It is using a {{Page cite|...}} to cite another wiki page. In this case the article references 1115. I think the use case is valid: Cite another wiki page.

• Do we have such a cite template?
• Should we
  • just use <ref>[[1115]]</ref>?
  • Disallow this kind of reference?
  • Something else?

—¿philoserf? (talk) 11:02, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

I would say you should just link to the article. Usually the date pages (e.g. 1115) should just be a list of events linked to the original sources. So the date pages are not a source of citation, they are an organizational page to give context. It's why there shouldn't be a sources template on the date page either. And for the Regiment article, that page cite should be to an original publication. Tjoneslo (talk) 17:02, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

broken references upon transclusion

I am not sure how to fix these reference errors. Perhaps the page itself needs a redesign. See Goods/Protective gear. Guidance? —¿philoserf? (talk) 11:02, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

The Goods subpages (e.g. Goods/Protective gear) are generated from the individual articles by DPL templates. Those pages are there because they are part of an external project. I'm not sure exactly how to fix the problem, so please ignore those pages for now. If you find others, let me know and I'll take another look at fixing the problem. Tjoneslo (talk) 16:58, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

Freelance Traveller (magazine) issues

I have found citations for Freelance Traveller magazine issues. We do not have them in the ludography. Is there a reason we should not add them? —¿philoserf? (talk) 11:28, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

We do not have them in the Ludography simply because no one has taken on the task. That and updating all the mongoose books are the two specific tasks for the books to do.Tjoneslo (talk) 14:17, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

Stellar Reaches 08 “:” in article name

I think there is an issue with citing the ludography when an article name has a colon. See Lazisar (world) and Stellar Reaches 08 article “Adventure: Until Sheep May Safely Graze”. Acknowledging I do not fully grok the Ludography Infoxboxbook2 Dpl Cargo world yet. —¿philoserf? (talk) 12:25, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

The problem isn’t the colon in the article name, the infobox update for the article didn’t complete correctly when the not updated the article. I need to figure out why. But simply edit and save the article fixes the problem. Tjoneslo (talk) 14:12, 12 June 2020 (EDT)