Guild Wars 2 wiki:References
It can often be useful to cite sources in articles. If those references are cleanly formatted, they can be more easily understood and the article information easily verified.
Use
Generally speaking, references are used when a source is not "instinctively" easy to find. For example, references to a forum post or fansite article are useful, as are "hidden" bits of information on the official website. However, some sources only clutter up the article and the reference list, so "obvious" references can be avoided.
It isn't necessary to reference something on this wiki, as normal wiki-links can be used.
Syntax
Description | You type | You get |
Create a reference |
<ref>details of the source</ref>. |
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Create an automatic list of references |
<references /> |
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Refer to the same source somewhere else |
location A <ref name="example">details</ref> location B <ref name="example" /> <references /> |
location A [1] location B [1] |
Reference list
The list of references shouldn't display raw URLs. Using standard wiki-code in combination with the ref-code above, a reference is formatted as title/summary of page, name of website. The following is an example reference list:
References
- ^ Post by Regina Buenaobra, Guild Wars 2 Guru
- ^ Guild Wars Co-Creator Jeff Strain Interviewed at Leipzig GC '07, TenTonHammer