User talk:SwifT/Styleguide

Can you please clarify the use of and when citing sources? I have seen them used in some articles on the Gentoo Wiki and I have used them in the Sony DualShock wiki. Should they be used and if so where should they be placed ("External resources or "References")? --BT (talk) 00:45, 1 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I tried to make a reasoning for using them and how/when to use them. I see References personally as a different section (alongside External resources and See also) whose sole purpose is to provide links to proof-related material (i.e. a claim was made inside the article, or some method has been borrowed by another resource) which the end user usually does not want or need to visit but is meant as a way to provide a source of a claim.
 * I haven't used myself much (or perhaps even at all, can't remember) but I did notice its use on a couple of articles as well. --SwifT (talk) 10:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. --BT (talk) 10:37, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Typo in references usage example
The redundant close tag is in “Example use of a reference”.


 * Good catch! Updated. --SwifT (talk) 18:43, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

More about references
Maybe add note about and its usage? Article source is contain good example, but explicit description will be better :)