Template talk:cite

Broken lists
Making 1-item lists is quite broken. Look at citations:water: the example below : it displays three one-item lists, separated by empty paragraphs. This is non-semantic and inaccessible (a screen-reader user is supposed to hear something like “unordered list, 8 items,” as a navigation aid), its layout is wrong, with all the extra whitespace. —Michael Z. 2010-05-11 19:22 z 

(Added example below, because I will fix the page I had linked) —Michael Z. 2010-05-11 19:25 z 

Type=journal
Need type=journal as per on en.wp. —  C M B J  05:45, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

RFC discussion: January 2016
It looks like was changed a bunch without orphaning or cleaning up the existing usage. The change was to, but I don't think that was used directly before the changes were made. See Citations:hirsute. - TheDaveRoss 20:43, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Also, in general, the Category:Citation_templates has some work-specific templates, those should probably be orphaned and deleted. - TheDaveRoss 20:46, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

RFD discussion: January–March 2024
See Grease_pit/2024/January. The relatively few (<500) uses of this should be changed to templates like cite-book (and cite-web, etc) or, in many cases e.g. on citations pages, quote-book (quote-web, etc). - -sche (discuss) 01:46, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep, but deprecate. There is no need to make old forms of pages unreadable. --RichardW57m (talk) 09:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Actually, the use of cite seems to make the pages unreadable already, which is what prompted the grease pit discussion... - -sche (discuss) 18:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. I removed it from one reference template where it was used. I also switched all uses on Citations: pages to the appropriate quote-* template, as they were broken. Now with less than 300 uses, it can be deleted outright after the uses are replaced with cite-*. It does not need to be preserved forever in a deprecated state. This, that and the other (talk) 01:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. Benwing2 (talk) 07:34, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Orphaned and deleted. The ~300 uses is well below the minimum threshold of 1,000 uses that I normally consider for deprecation instead of deletion. Benwing2 (talk) 03:46, 9 March 2024 (UTC)