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} is an easy way to create very basic links to the Wayback Machine (or other archiving services). It typically isn't used for citations since it doesn't include information like author, date, and publication, but it can be useful for non-citation links. Use the |url=, |title= and |date= parameters to specify the URL, title and archive date. For ...
Citation Hunt: A tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. Citer: Converts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL into a citation and shortened footnote. It also can generate citations for certain major news websites (e.g., The New York Times) and the Wayback Machine.
It doesn't always work properly, though, so be sure to double check it. Often, you will want to use the same source more than once in an article to support multiple facts. In this case, you can click Named references in the toolbar, and select a previously added source to re-use.
A bot-filled template that did ISBN -> "cite book" would be really useful. —Ashley Y 00:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC) [] The Wikipedia automatic citation generator sucks. Not only is it unable to generate ISBN citations sometimes it doesn't even do it for WorldCat websites (instead generates a citation *to* the website itself!!)
At the moment the internet archive doesn't work, if I save a page the page disappears immediately, so it has not been possible to save pages for some time now. 87.123.206.98 ( talk ) 22:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
If your work has been tagged, please provide a reliable source for the statement, and discuss if needed. You can add a citation by selecting from the drop-down menu at the top of the editing box. In markup, you can add a citation manually using ref tags. There are also more elaborate ways to cite sources.
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For example, proper in-text citation for a direct quote of fewer than 40 words is: "Plagiarism is the use of another person’s work (this could be his or her words, products or ideas) for personal advantage, without proper acknowledgment of the original work" ("Plagiarism," 2004, "Definition," para. 1).