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editTesting User:Mathglot/sandbox/Templates/Uh-page-numbers/sandbox rev 1319142554 of 01:11, 28 October 2025, for the wikied=yes case to link the Wiki Ed expert, if known:
Transclusion
edit{{User:Mathglot/sandbox/Templates/Uh-page-numbers/sandbox|wikied=yes}} ⟶
Verifiability, citations, and page numbers
editI noticed that you're doing a good job creating citations with templates such as {{cite journal}} or {{cite book}}; nice work! Using the proper page numbers in your citations will improve them even more.
In order to support the verifiability of Wikipedia content using in-line citations, please use the exact page number(s) within the source that verify the preceding content, not the page numbers of the entire source. We use citations to demonstrate WP:Verifiability of the content we write, so that anyone interested can look it up and verify that what we wrote accurately summarizes the source. Using the correct page numbers helps with this a great deal. If you are citing a 40-page journal article, the 'Cite this source' info in the journal article will likely provide the citation in MLA or another format, along with the page range of the entire article within that issue of the journal; for example, 252–91.
When translating that into a Wikipedia citation, avoid copying the entire page range into your citation, as that would mean that someone would have to scan all 40 pages to determine whether what you wrote is supported by the journal article or not. (If the source is a 400-page book, it would be that much worse.) If you use the source just once in your article, you can specify just the page numbers that support your content within the citation:
<ref name="Jones-2024">{{cite journal | ... | pp=274–275 }}</ref>
If you use the source more than once, then you can specify a different page range for the second and subsequent citations by using a named reference and including the {{rp}} template:
<ref name="Jones-2024" />{{rp|277–278}}
See more examples here. If the article's citation style is short footnotes, page number(s) are included as part of the {{sfn}} template; see Help:References and page numbers#Shortened footnotes. If you have questions, please contact your Wiki Ed expert for my course. You can also ask for help at the Wikipedia:Teahouse. Thanks, ~~~~
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edit{{subst:User:Mathglot/sandbox/Templates/Uh-page-numbers/sandbox|wikied=yes}} ⟶
Verifiability, citations, and page numbers
editI noticed that you're doing a good job creating citations with templates such as {{cite journal}} or {{cite book}}; nice work! Using the proper page numbers in your citations will improve them even more.
In order to support the verifiability of Wikipedia content using in-line citations, please use the exact page number(s) within the source that verify the preceding content, not the page numbers of the entire source. We use citations to demonstrate WP:Verifiability of the content we write, so that anyone interested can look it up and verify that what we wrote accurately summarizes the source. Using the correct page numbers helps with this a great deal. If you are citing a 40-page journal article, the 'Cite this source' info in the journal article will likely provide the citation in MLA or another format, along with the page range of the entire article within that issue of the journal; for example, 252–91.
When translating that into a Wikipedia citation, avoid copying the the entire page range into your citation, as that would mean that someone would have to scan all 40 pages to determine whether what you wrote is supported by the journal article or not. (If the source is a 400-page book, it would be that much worse.) If you use the source just once in your article, you can specify just the page numbers that support your content within the citation:
<ref name="Jones-2024">{{cite journal | ... | pp=274–275 }}</ref>
If you use the source more than once, then you can specify a different page range for the second and subsequent citations by using a named reference and including the {{rp}} template:
<ref name="Jones-2024" />{{rp|277–278}}
See more examples here. If the article's citation style is short footnotes, page number(s) are included as part of the {{sfn}} template; see Help:References and page numbers#Shortened footnotes. If you have questions, please contact your Wiki Ed expert for my course. You can also ask for help at the Wikipedia:Teahouse. Thanks,
Released revisions
editRev. 1319146303 of 01:43, 28 October 2025
editTesting rev. 1319146303 of 01:43, 28 October 2025:
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{{subst:Uh-page-numbers/sandbox|Liberation of France|wikied=yes}} ⟶
Verifiability, citations, and page numbers
editI noticed that you're doing a good job creating citations with templates such as {{cite journal}} or {{cite book}} at Liberation of France; nice work! Using the proper page numbers in your citations will improve them even more.
In order to support the verifiability of Wikipedia content using in-line citations, please use the exact page number(s) within the source that verify the preceding content, not the page numbers of the entire source. We use citations to demonstrate WP:Verifiability of the content we write, so that anyone interested can look it up and verify that what we wrote accurately summarizes the source. Using the correct page numbers helps with this a great deal. If you are citing a 40-page journal article, the 'Cite this source' info in the journal article will likely provide the citation in MLA or another format, along with the page range of the entire article within that issue of the journal; for example, 252–91.
When translating that into a Wikipedia citation, avoid copying the the entire page range into your citation, as that would mean that someone would have to scan all 40 pages to determine whether what you wrote is supported by the journal article or not. (If the source is a 400-page book, it would be that much worse.) If you use the source just once in your article, you can specify just the page numbers that support your content within the citation:
<ref name="Jones-2024">{{cite journal | ... | pp=274–275 }}</ref>
If you use the source more than once, then you can specify a different page range for the second and subsequent citations by using a named reference and including the {{rp}} template:
<ref name="Jones-2024" />{{rp|277–278}}
See more examples here. If the article's citation style is short footnotes, page number(s) are included as part of the {{sfn}} template; see Help:References and page numbers#Shortened footnotes. If you have questions, please contact your Wiki Ed expert for my course. You can also ask for help at the Wikipedia:Teahouse. Thanks,