the typography in the WP:CITEd refs is 100% supported by the MOS. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:36, 19 April 2025 (UTC) Citing sources#Citation style states While...

several of the disadvantages of citing primary sources in an encyclopedia. In contrast, the advantages of primary sources are often relevant mainly to original...

articles as sources…": surely this is much too strong. They are not considered citable sources, but they are perfectly legitimate sources when writing...

shows up whenever editing a page. We should be encourageing people to cite sources for positive reasons, not because work needs to be "checked" (negative...

suggestions on the Wikipedia:Cite sources page. Consider the following: If you consult an external source while writing an article, citing it is basic intellectual...

Considering things related to history, indicating primary sources and secondary sources is desirable in my opinion. Perhaps you would agree? Nixdorf 20:39...

which aim to give a general overview. If we were citing those, I agree it would be absurd. But citing a specialized encyclopedia for an important yet arcane...

definition, most wikipedia articles do not cite sources of any kind, much less a specific type of source. Many people are improving that, but it is a...

have {{cite video}}, which might help.Circeus 16:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC) When citing something, does the particular order of what one is citing matter...

should be in our wiki cite sources page because people need to be as specific as possible when citing in a footnote to the source of material we directly...

already written about it elsewhere, and that source can be cited. I see nothing wrong with citing multiple sources even for a short article, if necessary to...

serve other purposes, but since this article is on our "cite sources" policy, the "citing sources" function of any system is all that concerns us here....

Note that both the intermediate sources as well as the source citing that intermediate material, must be reliable sources in their own right to be used...

exceptions where statistics should be cited? //Tecmobowl 07:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC) Why do you think that citing sources should be the exception rather than...

very bad instruction creep. This page should be about the policy of citing sources in order to support articles as much as a part of the manual of style...

(see section above Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources#Free_sources vs Wikipedia_talk:Cite_sources/archive15#Free_sources) - a thread with last posting just...

sources that it cites? It does not add value to merely copy. It potentially adds value to call attention to material, by selective quoting and citing...

my own wiki and it references another template called Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 15/doc but I cannot find it anywhere.....and of course it shows...

mentions here and there. What do you do for citing sources in a case like this, where no official sources are apparent? Thanks --SteelersFan UK06 08:18...

as POV. i suggest some statement be issued about such a case in the "Citing sources" article, so that issues like this would not repeat for other users...

article without reading the original sources. If an editor read the sources, she should have no problem citing them; if he didn't read them, he shouldn't...

any sources at all except Wikipedia articles, which are not acceptable sources. I say that you didn't use sources because you didn't cite them. Citing sources...

that could serve as the basis for some researcher's quest for primary sources a lot easier. Unfortunantely, it's effect on VfD is limited at most and...

Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. It matches the following masks: Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive <#>, Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. This page was...

you're citing is a 1998 book published by the Royal Ontario Museum; you're not citing the original audiotapes. We do have |others= if you wanted to cite the...

reliable sources describing application features, known issues, etc, as they may not exist in reliable sources. I propose the idea that if actual source code...

says, WP:Citing sources "is the central page discussing the mechanics that support verifiability; it provides details on when to cite sources, offers links...

such sources are not RS. More recently, classifying such sources as non-RS was described as a longstanding, topic-wide practice. Some of the sources removed...

"Wikipedia:Citing sources" seems to infer that he can, as me adding new sources in a diferent style could be considered a change to an established cite style...

tertiary source such as Wikipedia can only report on secondary sources. Of course, it can cite the primary sources that are used by these secondary sources, as...