User talk:Psephomancy

Ask about Wikipedia cite templates

Could you import more cite templates from Wikipedia? I was thinking of cite:arXiv in particular (so I could properly cite the PAMSAC article), but others may be useful too. I'm not familiar with the nitty-gritty of Wikipedia programming, so I don't know what would have to be copied over. Kristomun (talk) 14:46, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I've been meaning to import some more. Do you want to start a list?

Actually Special:WantedTemplates has the ones that people have tried to use but don't currently exist. I was going to add Template:Clarify‏‎ Template:Cleanup‏‎ Template:Redundant Template:Who — Psephomancy (talk) 17:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't want to start using the templates before they're there. So I'd say Template:Cite_arXiv and a general stub template (Wikipedia has lots, but we could probably make do with a single one for everything for now). Kristomun (talk) 16:48, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Links and references

I've found https://tools.wmflabs.org/citer/citer.fcgi quite useful for creating Wiki-type references. Could we somehow draw new editors' attention to this so that links are more likely to be references/citations than just plain URL links? Is there any way to automatically find stale/dead links and flag them, as well? Presumably Wikipedia has something like the latter to keep links current. Kristomun (talk) 17:04, 4 February 2020 (UTC)