Very cool, I started a discussion at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources#Using_open_library_to_get_a_book_citation
. I
think there is consensus that it is useful to be linked somewhere on
Wikipedia, but that the citation style which you chose is unconventional and
maybe Template:Cite book [1] would be a better format to export citations
in. Also, the order of names should be reversed or if you decide to change
to cite book, you should you the "|first =" and "|last =" parameters to
distinguish between last name and the rest of the name, so that citations
would read last name first. I don't know what technical limitations you
have, but before I pepper all the help and policy pages with instructions on
how to pull citations from Open Library, I think the output should conform
more with the standard practice.

Alex Stinson

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:46 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alex -
>
> We did that about... 6 months ago!
>
> g
>
> On 3/13/11 7:09 AM, Alex Stinson wrote:
> > Out of curiosity when did the Wikipedia Citation option become part of
> every
> > page? That is a really cool feature and I am going to make sure it gets
> > mentioned in a couple of different places,
> >
> > Alex Stinson
> > User:Sadads
> >
> >
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