Template:Ibid: Difference between revisions
Maybe making part of up front text part of the following reduces size text will appease your desire for extreme parsimony at the expense of a modicum of clarity |
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Revision as of 04:00, 1 November 2008
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This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
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{{Ibid|date=August 2024}}
Pages on which this template is transcluded will be added to Category:Articles with ibid from August 2024. If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Articles with ibid, until a robot adds the date.
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Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article uses constructs such as ibid., loc. cit. and idem, which are discouraged by Wikipedia's style guide for footnotes, as they are easily broken.
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