Difference between revisions of "Module:Citation"

Revision as of 10:36, 21 May 2018

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Citation/doc

return error('This module is retained for historical and structural reasons; consider using [[Module:Citation/CS1]].')

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 return error('This module is retained for historical and structural reasons; consider using [[Module:Citation/CS1]].')
--- For the {{citation}} formatting functions, see: Module:Citation/CS1
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---NOTES
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--- NOTE A1: This Lua module was originally designed to handle a mix
---      of citation styles, crossing Vancouver style with Wikipedia's
---      local Citation Style 1 (CS1) from {Template:Citation/core}.
---      However, the conflicting positions of parameters, scattered
---      in twisted locations across this module, led to a separate
---      variation just to untangle the CS1 format of citations.
---
--- NOTE D2: The placement of dots and other separators between the
---      displayed parameters has been a continual headache, to keep
---      coordinated with the data in parentheses "(data)". There
---      has been a need to pre-check for the existence of related
---      options, to keep from putting double-dots ".." in some cases.
---      In particular, the omission of the "title=" parameter has led
---      to several cases of a spurious dot ". ." because the original
---      design had treated the title as a mandatory parameter.
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