Wikipedia talk:Special:Cite

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What does this actually do? ~ Ghelæ ^talk_contribs 14:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It creates bibliographic citations in several standard styles. Users who are preparing research papers can copy and paste the citations. Seahen 18:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copy to other wikis?[edit]

I think this page should be on Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote and adapted for Commons. The material there is every bit as citeable as those on Wikipedia. Seahen 18:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User preferences[edit]

The Special:Cite tool doesn't seem to respect the user's time zone preferences. I have an offset of -4:00 set in my user preferences. It's currently May 14 for me, but May 15 for GMT. The Special:Cite tool gives me a date of May 15. -- – Zawersh 00:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dashes[edit]

{{editprotected}} In the "important note", please remove the spaces flanking the two em-dashes ( — ), so that they will be unspaced, per the Manual of Style. I know this is not an article, but consistency in style is a good thing all the same. Waltham, The Duke of 19:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page I'm looking at is a soft redirect to a search box. Where is the "important note"? Skomorokh 20:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agh... I've put this in the wrong page. Sorry about that. Try MediaWiki:Citethispage-content... Waltham, The Duke of 20:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bug in URLs[edit]

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Take_the_%22A%22_Train&id=453858395 I see from //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Take_the_%22A%22_Train&oldid=453858395. The http is missing at all URLs. --Gerrit ^CUTEDH 15:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]