PCGamingWiki talk:Editing guide/References

His name is TotalBiscuit. --Chick'n'Duck (talk) 05:16, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for spotting the spelling mistake, I ended up removing the mention of TB entirely due to his passing and diminishing relevance.

Well, that was not my motivation. And his videos are still a huge database about games as this site is. So I beg to differ about »diminishing relevance«. --Chick'n'Duck (talk) 05:15, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

This is a page about using credible sources when referencing statements or facts, aimed at new editors adding new statements to the wiki.

Like it or not but in regards to that, the use of TB as an example has a diminishing relevance as he cannot produce any more content, and so he is only relevant for those games he have already covered -- which peters out at the end of 2017, early 2018. And for those cases, we probably already covers most of what he have said in our articles.

This is not a dig at the guy himself, but merely an acknowledgement of how as the years go by the use of him as an example of a "notable" YouTube series/personality that newcomers to the wiki might have heard about or watch the content of is ever decreasing.

It's better if we make use of an example that is relevant for newer games as well as readers might be interested in looking them up and see what they have said about the latest games and whatnot, and if we were to retain TB in that regard it would've only ended up being an eulogy to TB, and not as an actual help for our users.

I'll probably add DigitalFoundry as the example eventually as their focus on the technical aspects of a game as well as their comparisons to console ports is usually of highest relevance for the wiki nowadays.

I see. My perspective, as someone, who works on articles of older titles, is different to someone, who creates new articles to fresh games. This topic is solved from my side.

<ref>{{Refsnip|url=|title=|date=|snip}}</ref>

should probably be

<ref>{{Refsnip|url=|title=|date=|snippet=}}</ref>

Examples:

• snip=asdasdasd - This prints nothing
• snippet=asdasdasd - This prints "asdasdasd"

Good eye! Fixed it now.

This

Example

See Borderlands 2.

The refcheck template provides a standardized way of providing a referential snippet from an external URL. This is particularly helpful for long referenced pages.

Should be

Example

See Borderlands 2.

The refsnip template provides a standardized way of providing a referential snippet from an external URL. This is particularly helpful for long referenced pages.

Well spotted! Fixed :)