Search Results: Wikipedia:GENREF


Wikipedia:Citing sources
Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:17:58

of a notes section, see the article Tezcatlipoca. Shortcut WP:GENREFWP:GENREF A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Vitalian (general)
Kamis, 2013-12-12 10:40:38

general references, as per WP:GENREF. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC) I am not quite sure how to implement WP:GENREF. Perhaps if I changed the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eco Pickled Surface
Kamis, 2025-11-13 17:29:23

form of referencing is allowed. It's called a general reference (see WP:GENREF). I have added URLs to those papers, and one of them can be downloaded....

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sivanath Sastri
Selasa, 2025-12-16 11:37:29

hangup here for an inline cite for every word, general references per WP:GENREF still remain a valid method for verifiying article content. So in short...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Judaism and environmentalism
Jumat, 2025-12-12 09:38:53

relevant to the topic. Normal Op (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC) See WP:GENREF which explains that "A general reference is a citation that supports content...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johann Fust Community Library
Minggu, 2025-11-23 07:06:39

WP:FNNR. They are not external links, they are general references (see WP:GENREF). The notes above are the inline citations (see WP:INLINECITE). —Godsy(TALKCONT)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sui-Turkic war
Senin, 2025-01-27 19:26:44

The main thing I'm actually commenting to note is that none of the (WP:GENREF) sources given are actually Primary sources. There are two modern sources...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Maurice Duplessis/archive1
Senin, 2023-05-01 06:51:27

real life has gotten busy. For your question about listing the sources, WP:GENREF gives more information about this. While listing references that are not...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N-localizer
Selasa, 2025-12-09 12:46:17

(UTC) You are confusing "inline citation" with citation-in-general. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
Selasa, 2025-11-18 15:05:31

preferable, there is no requirement saying that they must be inline (WP:GENREF). – Margin1522 (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2014 (UTC) Keep - the article in...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noble Order of Saint George of Rougemont
Jumat, 2025-11-14 18:41:49

it lacks inline references. But general references are also allowed (WP:GENREF). • That the sources are offline. But according to WP:PAPERONLY that doesn't...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 July 29
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:20:10

want to add a general reference then using a <ref> tag is not ideal: WP:GENREF explains two ways to do that. If you have more questions or you want someone...

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Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Electricity/1
Minggu, 2023-03-26 09:00:46

save the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC) WP:GENREF, which are indeed perfectly acceptable, are almost always listed at the...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Socrates Nelson/archive1
Rabu, 2021-12-29 07:06:13

order is more intuitive. Just making sure before I change them. See WP:GENREF "are usually sorted by the last name of the author or the editor." Gog the...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/March 2015
Selasa, 2015-05-12 01:34:20

being discussed. I'll talk it out, but the reality is WP:V supersedes WP:GENREF. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 05:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC) @Gloss:, with regards...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive895
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 20:58:56

CassiantoTalk 19:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC) No, not really purely subjective. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/January 2022
Senin, 2022-01-31 07:25:56

Inline references are generally preferred over general references (see WP:GENREF), especially for a source like Buden where individual pages should be cited...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/March 2017
Senin, 2017-03-27 06:31:11

the subjects sourced to the general references might I suggest using {{genref}}? I created this template a while ago for this kind of situation, where...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/November 2015
Senin, 2015-11-30 06:03:53

case anyone else wants to use the same trick, I moved the code to Template:Genref so it can be used in any article. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/August 2020
Selasa, 2020-09-01 07:26:36

don't like the use of "General references", for the reasons laid out in WP:GENREF. Harrias talk 09:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Read the prose in detail – looks...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 May 13
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:12:37

WP:FNNR. They are not external links, they are general references (see WP:GENREF). The notes above are the inline citations (see WP:INLINECITE). —Godsy(TALKCONT)...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1151
Jumat, 2022-05-20 13:04:48

I've never done a general reference before, so stupidly, I'd never read WP:GENREF. Learning! Elemimele (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2022 (UTC) Hi. I have never tried...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball players with 300 career stolen bases/archive2
Sabtu, 2024-02-17 10:42:42

being discussed. I'll talk it out, but the reality is WP:V supersedes WP:GENREF. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 05:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC) @Gloss:, with regards...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2026 May 13
Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:00:23

citations / footnotes are preferred by most editors, but in this scenario a WP:GENREF would have been perfectly acceptable. nil nz 11:09, 13 May 2026 (UTC) Only...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 45
Selasa, 2026-04-07 22:51:21

comments there are based on my understanding of relevant Wikipages such as WP:GENREF, WP:MINREF, and WP:Notability. I would appreciate discussion about whether...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 August 19
Sabtu, 2020-08-29 22:29:22

relevant to the topic. Normal Op (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC) See WP:GENREF which explains that "A general reference is a citation that supports content...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1131
Sabtu, 2022-08-06 00:54:58

guidelines or example page where general references are used would help. WP:GENREF explains what they are, but not how to do them. Amirah talk 21:26, 14 November...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 July 8
Minggu, 2022-07-17 12:10:38

hangup here for an inline cite for every word, general references per WP:GENREF still remain a valid method for verifiying article content. So in short...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 January 13
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:42:24

it lacks inline references. But general references are also allowed (WP:GENREF). • That the sources are offline. But according to WP:PAPERONLY that doesn't...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 23
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:11:19

preferable, there is no requirement saying that they must be inline (WP:GENREF). – Margin1522 (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2014 (UTC) Keep - the article in...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Lockheed YF-22
Minggu, 2024-12-01 01:20:24

was the prime. US or U.S.? Consistency needed. The distinction between WP:GENREF and "Additional sources" is not usually seen on well-developed articles...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 June 21
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:15:30

(UTC) You are confusing "inline citation" with citation-in-general. See WP:GENREF. "A general reference is a citation to a reliable source that supports content...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 January 2
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:41:53

form of referencing is allowed. It's called a general reference (see WP:GENREF). I have added URLs to those papers, and one of them can be downloaded....

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2024 July 12
Selasa, 2024-07-16 09:01:17

ordered by where they appear in the article. Unless you're talking about a WP:GENREF section, in which case I agree romanized spellings should be easier for...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of birds of Nauru/archive1
Sabtu, 2022-01-29 07:26:49

Inline references are generally preferred over general references (see WP:GENREF), especially for a source like Buden where individual pages should be cited...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft/archive1
Kamis, 2022-03-10 04:16:42

case anyone else wants to use the same trick, I moved the code to Template:Genref so it can be used in any article. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/PCA Young Player of the Year/archive1
Senin, 2020-08-17 07:28:09

don't like the use of "General references", for the reasons laid out in WP:GENREF. Harrias talk 09:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Read the prose in detail – looks...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Cardiff City F.C. players/archive1
Sabtu, 2017-03-04 06:31:08

the subjects sourced to the general references might I suggest using {{genref}}? I created this template a while ago for this kind of situation, where...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 176
Kamis, 2019-07-04 05:26:47

WP:TNT'd appear to have always had support via secondary sources in WP:GENREFs (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on the Cosmological...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 49
Kamis, 2025-11-13 15:26:50

use GENREF only? I mostly see them when people translate from the German Wikipedia. I somewhat fear that we'll see more people translating a GENREF article...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1112
Senin, 2023-01-30 14:58:31

contribs) 10:16, 11 June 2021 (UTC) Hi BLG1952. You might want to look at WP:GENREF because some of the sources cited in that article are general references...

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Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 38
Kamis, 2026-03-05 06:47:52

article rather than being cited inline, they are not disallowed, see WP:GENREF. Unless you have other reasons to believe that the references do not, in...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2021
Rabu, 2021-12-29 01:03:03

order is more intuitive. Just making sure before I change them. See WP:GENREF "are usually sorted by the last name of the author or the editor." Gog the...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 178
Rabu, 2025-09-24 22:11:31

WP:TNT'd appear to have always had support via secondary sources in WP:GENREFs (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on the Cosmological...

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Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/PDH
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:30:01

Holocene (4 edits): N limited creative text and not verified by the one genref, but all gone now MCE89 (talk) 08:18, 29 December 2025 (UTC) Dictionary...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2013/Promoted
Rabu, 2013-12-18 02:58:38

general references, as per WP:GENREF. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC) I am not quite sure how to implement WP:GENREF. Perhaps if I changed the...

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Significa liberdade
Kamis, 2024-09-26 09:45:53

of the good article criteria, not a requirement for all articles (see WP:GENREF). We don't remove things from mainspace because they're imperfect. If we...

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Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/April 2025
Jumat, 2026-04-03 23:03:37

covered by a single source. Nobody needs a citation every line if a WP:GENREF suffices for the entire page or a specific section. For example, see Template:Section...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 January 19
Senin, 2025-01-27 16:07:19

The main thing I'm actually commenting to note is that none of the (WP:GENREF) sources given are actually Primary sources. There are two modern sources...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1147
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:15:14

(just as I will say to Skyerise that it's entirely possible to clarify WP:GENREF without calling another editor an idiot), including against the reportee's...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 211
Rabu, 2026-03-25 22:37:15

In which case, how do you square this new requirement with WP:MINREF, WP:GENREF, WP:LISTVERIFY, and WP:LEADCITE? What is a "third-party source"? Elsewhere...

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Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 70
Minggu, 2023-06-18 03:30:39

save the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC) WP:GENREF, which are indeed perfectly acceptable, are almost always listed at the...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1209
Rabu, 2023-12-27 01:27:22

inline citations because they don't provide text-source integrity (see WP:GENREF). Working off of just one source isn't great either, as it does a poor job...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 204
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 21:05:51

of WP:MINREF on that transcluded page any more than a bibliographic WP:GENREF would be, even if it was used as an inline citation on another page that...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1242
Senin, 2024-12-09 02:12:00

@AkiyamaKana As far as I recall, general references aren't really needed (see WP:GENREF), so I think it's better to change them to appropriate inline citations...

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Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/June 2025
Senin, 2026-04-06 19:31:43

so, and likely an overly strict interpretation of a single policy, as WP:GENREF allows for a single source to cite a large batch of material when its entries...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2024/Promoted
Minggu, 2024-12-01 01:20:29

was the prime. US or U.S.? Consistency needed. The distinction between WP:GENREF and "Additional sources" is not usually seen on well-developed articles...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1187
Jumat, 2025-07-18 06:42:27

like general references either, but they're still accepted practice (WP:GENREF). Even if general references weren't allowed, you've violated WP:3RR. Thebiguglyalien...

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