Tmerbex92

Hello, welcome to my talk page --Tmerbex92 (talk) 12:34, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! Have fun. Zsohl^(Talk) 12:37, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello :-)

Greetings from within the Wikipedia course. --Polymerprof (talk) 12:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Shortened footnotes

Hi, here is the page I was looking for: Help:Shortened footnotes. --Jaqen (talk) 12:48, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!! I had a look at it but I feel it is not quite what I was after, so I have decided to just cite the entire chapter.

I was hoping for something where for each citation one could specify specific pages and that when it comes to compiling the final reflist Wikipedia would just concatenate all pages cited across all instances of a given source. For example:

(I was not sure how to make something plain text only so "_" are supposed to be "<" or ">" and "(" & ")" are supposed to be "{" and "}" respectively)

I like apples _ref name="xyz"_((Cite Q | Q112793147 | pages=100))_/ref_

I like pears _ref name="xyz"_((Cite Q | QQ112793147 | pages=200))_/ref_

So when it comes to building the reflist it would compile something like:

Ronald DiPippo (2016). Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact (4th ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 100,200. ISBN 978-0-08-100879-9. Wikidata Q112793147.

As opposed to

Ronald DiPippo (2016). Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact (4th ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 100. ISBN 978-0-08-100879-9. Wikidata Q112793147.

Ronald DiPippo (2016). Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact (4th ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-08-100879-9. Wikidata Q112793147.

Hope that is clear --Tmerbex92 (talk) 13:30, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

To show wiki markup as normal text you can use the nowiki tag.

Unfortunately as far as I know there is no way for the reference list to be compiled automatically by the software.

Please remember that other users do not receive a notification when you answer them in your user talk unless you use Template:Reply to. --Jaqen (talk) 13:35, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

@Jaqen: Thanks for the pointer about the nowiki tag. I hope I am replying correctly this time round Tmerbex92 (talk) 13:48, 29 June 2022 (UTC)