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• Input to the Visual Editor team appears to have worked in one instance. Adding citations is the big barrier for new editors at editathons, and this is a task where Visual Editor can be helpful. The Visual Editor citation tool is now much, much improved, and it fills in citations automatically for many websites. Improved citations, combined with improved speed of response, are making Visual Editor a viable option for in-person editing events. Hope that this progress will continue! --Djembayz (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
• Yes, for just this reason I intend to push VE for my next gig as Campus Ambassador. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:35, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
• As a general note, citation generation tools such as Dalba's Yadkard or Apoc2400's Google Books citer need to be made orders of magnitude more prominent. FourViolas (talk) 04:27, 21 August 2015 (UTC)