Operator: Smith609 ( talk · contribs)
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Function overview: Convert bare URLs to "Cite Journal" or "Citation" templates
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Requested at User_talk:Citation_bot
Edit period(s): Continuous: addition to existing bot code
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Function details:
In the case where an article has been following a consistent citation style, and the bare url is an exception to the style, how will the bot know which style is in use? In particular, if an article does not use citation templates, but rather some other acceptable style, how will the bot know not to add citation templates? Jc3s5h ( talk) 12:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC) reply
You have to be a special kind of special to consider
Better than
And a bare url would go against WP:CITE anyway. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:02, 1 April 2011 (UTC) reply
{{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevC.83.031303|title=Observation of a two-neutron cascade from a resonance in <sup>24</sup>O |year=2011 |last1=Hoffman |first1=C. |last2=Baumann |first2=T. |last3=Brown |first3=J. |last4=Deyoung |first4=P. |last5=Finck |first5=J. |last6=Frank |first6=N. |last7=Hinnefeld |first7=J. |last8=Mosby |first8=S. |last9=Peters |first9=W. |journal=Physical Review C |volume=83 |issue=3 |page=031303}}
C. Hoffman ''et al.'' (2011). "Observation of a two-neutron cascade from a resonance in <sup>24</sup>O", ''Phys. Rev. C'', '''83'''(3): 031303, {{doi|10.1103/PhysRevC.83.031303}}.
<ref>http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2F%28SICI%291096-8644%28200005%29112%3A1%3C103%3A%3AAID-AJPA10%3E3.0.CO%3B2-6</ref>
and <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2F%28SICI%291096-8644%28200005%29112%3A1%3C103%3A%3AAID-AJPA10%3E3.0.CO%3B2-6]</ref>
. If something like <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2F%28SICI%291096-8644%28200005%29112%3A1%3C103%3A%3AAID-AJPA10%3E3.0.CO%3B2-6 JMA Miller (2000)]
is encountered, it would leave it alone, since the URL is not bare.
Headbomb {
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replyApproved for trial (50 edits or 5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz talk 03:42, 7 April 2011 (UTC) reply