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Cite web. This template is used on approximately 4,790,000 pages, or roughly 8% of all pages. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit.
Template. : Vcite web. These templates format citations to sources. They have the following major variants: { { vcite journal }} for articles in academic journals and similar periodicals. You can use the Diberri template filler to generate this template, by replacing " cite " with " vcite " in its output.
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates . A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions ...
Template:Cite news. This template is used on 1,620,000+ pages, or roughly 3% of all pages. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit.
For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing <ref> at the front of the citation and </ref> at the end. . Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a <ref></ref> button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will ...
Use of templates within the citation template is discouraged because many of these templates will add extraneous HTML or CSS that will be included raw in the metadata. Also, HTML entities, for example , –, etc., should not be used in parameters that contribute to the metadata. COinS metadata is created for these parameters
2. templates and files are usually used on other pages, so fixing them effects both the template or files as well as the page (s) they are transcluded upon. Debresser ( talk) 18:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC) I am in favor of the proposed change, as I am the one who raise this point on both your talkpages.
title: Title of source page on website. Displays in quotation marks. For titles containing quotation marks, convert regular quotation marks (") to single quotation marks ('). See MOS:QINQ for guidance in more complex situations.