User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Tidy citations

Tidy citations will harmonize spacing in citation templates or align them vertically the way infoboxes are aligned. Tidy citations should almost never be run on its own, see WP:MEATBOT and WP:COSMETICBOT.

Put the line

{{subst:js|User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Tidy citations.js}}

in either your common JavaScript file or the JavaScript file of your current skin, save the page, and bypass your browser cache.

August 2018 note: The function importScript was deprecated in the July 2017 release of MediaWiki 1.29, and mw.loader is prefered.^[1] But importScript is not obsolete and still works, in case you prefer the old method of manually installing with {{subst:iusc|User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Tidy citations.js}} or using ScriptInstaller.

Tidy citations will add two menu items to the p-toolbar when in edit mode:

Clicking them will harmonize citations:

{{Tidy}}:

Some body text here.<ref name="Jarnow 2018">{{cite web |first=Jesse |last=Jarnow |title=The Ghost of John Perry Barlow Lives in His Posthumous Memoir |website=WIRED |date=5 June 2018 |url=https://www.wired.com/story/the-ghost-of-john-perry-barlow-lives-in-his-posthumous-memoir/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180606011712/https://www.wired.com/story/the-ghost-of-john-perry-barlow-lives-in-his-posthumous-memoir/ |archive-date=6 June 2018 |dead-url=no |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref>

{{Tidy}} (vertically):

Some body text here.<ref name="Jarnow 2018">{{cite web
| first        = Jesse
| last         = Jarnow
| title        = The Ghost of John Perry Barlow Lives in His Posthumous Memoir
| website      = WIRED
| date         = 5 June 2018
| url          = https://www.wired.com/story/the-ghost-of-john-perry-barlow-lives-in-his-posthumous-memoir/
| archive-url  = http://web.archive.org/web/20180606011712/https://www.wired.com/story/the-ghost-of-john-perry-barlow-lives-in-his-posthumous-memoir/
| archive-date = 6 June 2018
| dead-url     = no
| access-date  = 2 August 2018
}}</ref>

wikEd is in general incompatible with scripts, add-ons, or extensions that rely on or change the standard text edit box, and Tidy citations is one of those scripts. The workaround is to temporarily turn off wikEd by pressing the button, making the changes with Tidy citations, and re-enabling wikEd.

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This script is a modified version of User:Zyxw/Tidy citations.js (permalink), which in turn is a mod of User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations.js, which in turn is a modified version of User:Waldir/formatcitations.js.