Forum:CT Archive/Card game citations

As discussed here, currently sources lists require each individual card to be listed. This proposal is to change this, so only the expansion/set would be listed once, with the specific card being used only for referencing purposes. This will significantly lower the amount of sources listed with cards. For example, the current sources list for the Invasion of Naboo article lists almost 700 cards, which is still incomplete. This proposal would lower that list to a relatively smaller list of about 170 card game expansions. The changes to be made would be:


 * Layout Guide#Sources: *Only a card game expansion should be listed in the sources using the relevant template, not individual cards.


 * Layout Guide#Notes and references: *If a card game introduces new information, the specific card to introduce the information should be referenced. If the new information is not on a card, such as inside a rulebook, the game's expansion should be referenced followed with being used to specify the origin of the information.


 * Manual of Style#Citation templates: (This would be a new subsection in the citation section) When citing information from a card game, the card containing the information must be specified. The exception to this is if the information's origin is not from a specific card, such as a rulebook. In this case, the expansion should be referenced with being used to specify the origin of the information.


 * A note would be added to the page of each card game citation's template: When using this template within the Sources section, only specify the set. A card should only be specified when this template is used for a reference.

Tags such as, , , , etc would thus be applied across the entire expansion, not individual cards. I.e. we treat the expansion as a single source.

I have been in contact with MJ, who helped ensure a change would create no problems, and he assures me a change could be implemented by a bot very easily.

Examples:
 * Source: TCG undefined
 * Reference (card): TCG undefined
 * Reference (rulebook): TCG undefined

TL:DR - we treat card expansions as a single source, rather than individual cards. Individual cards are specified for referencing purposes only.

Support

 * 1) Manoof (talk) 03:01, June 26, 2015 (UTC)