Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations
WebCite allows immediate archiving of individual webpages upon request. This is distinct from the inherent delays of the Internet Archive's automated web-crawling method; for which new or recently published material may take several months to appear, and for which more transient pages may be missed altogether.
Subject to copyright protection,[1] WebCite allows you to pre-empt the possibility of future page alteration or deletion with its archive form - http://www.webcitation.org/archive.php. As part of the archiving process, a message is sent to your specified e-mail address giving a unique archive URL that can be used to access the content. As well as a confirming e-mail, submission of a request results in an on-screen message advising you of the archive URL there and then - so you can use it in your article reference straightaway.
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Wikilinks to full references
Wikilinks can be created for example from short note citations to their appropriate full references regardless of format. For references written freehand, or using any citation template, it simply requires the inclusion of some appropriate identifying tags. In the following example note how the value of the id parameter used in the <cite> tags act like anchoring bookmarks, thus allowing the shortened note citation to use a wikilink (like a link to a same-page section heading would, using #). The same approach could of course also be used to wikilink parenthesised author-date (Harvard) citations to their full references.
Wikilink example edit:
The Sun is pretty big,<ref>[[#refMiller2005|Miller 2005]], p.23.</ref>
but the Moon is not so big.<ref>[[#refBrown2006|Brown 2006]], p.46.</ref>
The Sun is also quite hot.<ref>[[#refMiller2005|Miller 2005]], p.34.</ref>
== Notes ==
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== References ==
*<cite id=refBrown2006>Brown, R (2006). "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78).</cite>
*<cite id=refMiller2005>Miller, E (2005). "The Sun", Academic Press.</cite>
Example rendered result:
The Sun is pretty big,[1] but the Moon is not so big.[2] The Sun is also quite hot.[3]
Notes
- ^ Miller 2005, p. 23.
- ^ Brown 2006, p. 46.
- ^ Miller 2005, p. 34.
References
- Brown, R (2006). "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78).
- Miller, E (2005). "The Sun", Academic Press.
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Notes
- ^ WebCite observes robot exclusion standards as well as no-cache and no-archive tags. Authors may request removal of archived material. Caching and archiving of webpages is otherwise well-established practice (e.g. including by others, such as Google, and the Internet Archive).
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