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of a notes section, see the article Tezcatlipoca. Shortcut WP:GENREFWP:GENREF A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...
Click to read more »general references, as per WP:GENREF. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC) I am not quite sure how to implement WP:GENREF. Perhaps if I changed the...
Click to read more »form of referencing is allowed. It's called a general reference (see WP:GENREF). I have added URLs to those papers, and one of them can be downloaded....
Click to read more »hangup here for an inline cite for every word, general references per WP:GENREF still remain a valid method for verifiying article content. So in short...
Click to read more »relevant to the topic. Normal Op (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC) See WP:GENREF which explains that "A general reference is a citation that supports content...
Click to read more »WP:FNNR. They are not external links, they are general references (see WP:GENREF). The notes above are the inline citations (see WP:INLINECITE). —Godsy(TALKCONT)...
Click to read more »The main thing I'm actually commenting to note is that none of the (WP:GENREF) sources given are actually Primary sources. There are two modern sources...
Click to read more »real life has gotten busy. For your question about listing the sources, WP:GENREF gives more information about this. While listing references that are not...
Click to read more »(UTC) You are confusing "inline citation" with citation-in-general. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...
Click to read more »preferable, there is no requirement saying that they must be inline (WP:GENREF). – Margin1522 (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2014 (UTC) Keep - the article in...
Click to read more »it lacks inline references. But general references are also allowed (WP:GENREF). • That the sources are offline. But according to WP:PAPERONLY that doesn't...
Click to read more »want to add a general reference then using a <ref> tag is not ideal: WP:GENREF explains two ways to do that. If you have more questions or you want someone...
Click to read more »save the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC) WP:GENREF, which are indeed perfectly acceptable, are almost always listed at the...
Click to read more »order is more intuitive. Just making sure before I change them. See WP:GENREF "are usually sorted by the last name of the author or the editor." Gog the...
Click to read more »being discussed. I'll talk it out, but the reality is WP:V supersedes WP:GENREF. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 05:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC) @Gloss:, with regards...
Click to read more »CassiantoTalk 19:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC) No, not really purely subjective. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...
Click to read more »Inline references are generally preferred over general references (see WP:GENREF), especially for a source like Buden where individual pages should be cited...
Click to read more »the subjects sourced to the general references might I suggest using {{genref}}? I created this template a while ago for this kind of situation, where...
Click to read more »case anyone else wants to use the same trick, I moved the code to Template:Genref so it can be used in any article. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)...
Click to read more »don't like the use of "General references", for the reasons laid out in WP:GENREF. Harrias talk 09:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Read the prose in detail – looks...
Click to read more »I've never done a general reference before, so stupidly, I'd never read WP:GENREF. Learning! Elemimele (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2022 (UTC) Hi. I have never tried...
Click to read more »WP:FNNR. They are not external links, they are general references (see WP:GENREF). The notes above are the inline citations (see WP:INLINECITE). —Godsy(TALKCONT)...
Click to read more »being discussed. I'll talk it out, but the reality is WP:V supersedes WP:GENREF. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 05:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC) @Gloss:, with regards...
Click to read more »comments there are based on my understanding of relevant Wikipages such as WP:GENREF, WP:MINREF, and WP:Notability. I would appreciate discussion about whether...
Click to read more »relevant to the topic. Normal Op (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC) See WP:GENREF which explains that "A general reference is a citation that supports content...
Click to read more »guidelines or example page where general references are used would help. WP:GENREF explains what they are, but not how to do them. Amirah talk 21:26, 14 November...
Click to read more »hangup here for an inline cite for every word, general references per WP:GENREF still remain a valid method for verifiying article content. So in short...
Click to read more »preferable, there is no requirement saying that they must be inline (WP:GENREF). – Margin1522 (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2014 (UTC) Keep - the article in...
Click to read more »citations / footnotes are preferred by most editors, but in this scenario a WP:GENREF would have been perfectly acceptable. nil nz 11:09, 13 May 2026 (UTC) Only...
Click to read more »it lacks inline references. But general references are also allowed (WP:GENREF). • That the sources are offline. But according to WP:PAPERONLY that doesn't...
Click to read more »(UTC) You are confusing "inline citation" with citation-in-general. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...
Click to read more »form of referencing is allowed. It's called a general reference (see WP:GENREF). I have added URLs to those papers, and one of them can be downloaded....
Click to read more »was the prime. US or U.S.? Consistency needed. The distinction between WP:GENREF and "Additional sources" is not usually seen on well-developed articles...
Click to read more »Inline references are generally preferred over general references (see WP:GENREF), especially for a source like Buden where individual pages should be cited...
Click to read more »ordered by where they appear in the article. Unless you're talking about a WP:GENREF section, in which case I agree romanized spellings should be easier for...
Click to read more »case anyone else wants to use the same trick, I moved the code to Template:Genref so it can be used in any article. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)...
Click to read more »don't like the use of "General references", for the reasons laid out in WP:GENREF. Harrias talk 09:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Read the prose in detail – looks...
Click to read more »the subjects sourced to the general references might I suggest using {{genref}}? I created this template a while ago for this kind of situation, where...
Click to read more »WP:TNT'd appear to have always had support via secondary sources in WP:GENREFs (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on the Cosmological...
Click to read more »use GENREF only? I mostly see them when people translate from the German Wikipedia. I somewhat fear that we'll see more people translating a GENREF article...
Click to read more »contribs) 10:16, 11 June 2021 (UTC) Hi BLG1952. You might want to look at WP:GENREF because some of the sources cited in that article are general references...
Click to read more »article rather than being cited inline, they are not disallowed, see WP:GENREF. Unless you have other reasons to believe that the references do not, in...
Click to read more »order is more intuitive. Just making sure before I change them. See WP:GENREF "are usually sorted by the last name of the author or the editor." Gog the...
Click to read more »WP:TNT'd appear to have always had support via secondary sources in WP:GENREFs (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on the Cosmological...
Click to read more »Holocene (4 edits): N limited creative text and not verified by the one genref, but all gone now MCE89 (talk) 08:18, 29 December 2025 (UTC) Dictionary...
Click to read more »general references, as per WP:GENREF. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC) I am not quite sure how to implement WP:GENREF. Perhaps if I changed the...
Click to read more »of the good article criteria, not a requirement for all articles (see WP:GENREF). We don't remove things from mainspace because they're imperfect. If we...
Click to read more »covered by a single source. Nobody needs a citation every line if a WP:GENREF suffices for the entire page or a specific section. For example, see Template:Section...
Click to read more »The main thing I'm actually commenting to note is that none of the (WP:GENREF) sources given are actually Primary sources. There are two modern sources...
Click to read more »(just as I will say to Skyerise that it's entirely possible to clarify WP:GENREF without calling another editor an idiot), including against the reportee's...
Click to read more »In which case, how do you square this new requirement with WP:MINREF, WP:GENREF, WP:LISTVERIFY, and WP:LEADCITE? What is a "third-party source"? Elsewhere...
Click to read more »save the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC) WP:GENREF, which are indeed perfectly acceptable, are almost always listed at the...
Click to read more »inline citations because they don't provide text-source integrity (see WP:GENREF). Working off of just one source isn't great either, as it does a poor job...
Click to read more »of WP:MINREF on that transcluded page any more than a bibliographic WP:GENREF would be, even if it was used as an inline citation on another page that...
Click to read more »@AkiyamaKana As far as I recall, general references aren't really needed (see WP:GENREF), so I think it's better to change them to appropriate inline citations...
Click to read more »so, and likely an overly strict interpretation of a single policy, as WP:GENREF allows for a single source to cite a large batch of material when its entries...
Click to read more »was the prime. US or U.S.? Consistency needed. The distinction between WP:GENREF and "Additional sources" is not usually seen on well-developed articles...
Click to read more »like general references either, but they're still accepted practice (WP:GENREF). Even if general references weren't allowed, you've violated WP:3RR. Thebiguglyalien...
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