Category talk:Specific-source templates

what?, why?, how?, where?

what do these templates do?
why would I use them?
how would I use them?

what would they look like in the page as I edit?

what would they look like in the page after edit?

where in the page is appropriate to place them?
Alanthehat (talk) 13:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

responses to what?, why?, how?, where?

(Forgive me for lowering the volume on your title up there).

These templates are citations to books and other sources that are used in many articles. For example {{Russell Norvig 2003}} produces:

• Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-790395-2

Which can be used in the "References" section of any article. (Russell Norvig is the most popular textbook about artificial intelligence, so there are a large number of articles that use this source.) These templates are just a convenience that some editors have used when editing large numbers of articles on the same subject. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 07:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

page layout

Subcategories - none of the '+' buttons do anything! Alanthehat (talk) 13:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Don't know what the problem was, but they work now. HairyWombat 02:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Typing-aid templates

@SMcCandlish: pinging you as a courtesy, as you originally put this category (under its old name) within Category:Typing-aid templates. I removed that parent today as it does not seem applicable to me. Typing-aid templates are mostly to save typing special characters or formats such as superscripts. – Fayenatic London 11:56, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I categorized them thus because their purpose is the avoidance of redundant/repetitive typing out of the same source details over and over again. I don't see any salient difference between that and a template that saves one the hassle of typing out  –, or whatever. They're both an aid to typing efficiency.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  03:03, 7 November 2015 (UTC)