Template talk:Cite

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Revision as of 19:54, 26 April 2009 by Dan Kohn (talk | contribs) (Comment)

Barry and others, do you agree this template is worth adding to every page? --Dan Kohn 12:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

An alternative is to add a Cite at the top of Template:Footer, and then add Footer to every page. That way, we could change out the standard Footer across all article pages from one place. Note that Cite is written to be the article section, while the other templates are created as tables to go at the bottom. So, Footer should then always be the first template transcluded to be able to include both a section and a table footer.

Good idea Dan. I do not know how to yoke the Cite template into the footer template. --Blbarnitz 18:13, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Note that this Cite template really shines on article pages like 401(k), where the Forum's phpbb software would normally throw up on the use of a parentheses in a URL. However, the MediaWiki software is smart enough to URL encode the parentheses, as you can see here. --Dan Kohn 19:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)