Wikipedia talk:Special:Cite
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What does this actually do? ~ 14:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
- It creates bibliographic citations in several standard styles. Users who are preparing research papers can copy and paste the citations. Seahen 18:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Copy to other wikis?
editI think this page should be on Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote and adapted for Commons. The material there is every bit as citeable as those on Wikipedia. Seahen 18:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
User preferences
editThe Special:Cite tool doesn't seem to respect the user's time zone preferences. I have an offset of -4:00 set in my user preferences. It's currently May 14 for me, but May 15 for GMT. The Special:Cite tool gives me a date of May 15. -- – Zawersh 00:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Dashes
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In the "important note", please remove the spaces flanking the two em-dashes ( — ), so that they will be unspaced, per the Manual of Style. I know this is not an article, but consistency in style is a good thing all the same. Waltham, The Duke of 19:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
- The page I'm looking at is a soft redirect to a search box. Where is the "important note"? Skomorokh 20:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
- Agh... I've put this in the wrong page. Sorry about that. Try MediaWiki:Citethispage-content... Waltham, The Duke of 20:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Bug in URLs
editLooking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Take_the_%22A%22_Train&id=453858395 I see from //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Take_the_%22A%22_Train&oldid=453858395. The http is missing at all URLs. --Gerrit CUTEDH 15:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)