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On citing sources
Hi! An acquaintance of mine linked me to this wiki/dictionary during a conversation recently. I'm a big fan of independent wiki projects and someone who is plural (median specifically, I'm thinking. I've been thinking about this for a fair few years now and am still unsure in some regards), and I'd like to maybe help if possible. I'm definitely not an expert on plurality however as I tend to kinda stay out of community spaces in general (I'm just not generally a very social person, I'm queer too and I just don't hang out in queer spaces neither as an example because I find them overwhelming) so I can't help much with adding actual article content I don't think, but as someone who's helped with things like copyediting on Wikipedia and (to a lesser extent) other smaller wikis, I'd love to offer help in that vein of things. My tendency to want to stay out of big community spaces also to me really emphasizes the importance of a wiki someone can browse without that feeling of any sort of push to be social when it would make them uncomfortable.

One thing I think could potentially use some improving upon is the way the citing of sources is handled here. Many of them are just links but I think for a variety of reasons it may be helpful to have a more structured way of writing out sources. Doesn't even have to be some pre-established way of writing out sources used in academia or on other sites like Wikipedia (those can be kind of intimidating and also sometimes even a bit overkill for some applications), I'm just thinking it'd be good to have them formatted with (if applicable) a proper title for the blogpost or webpage being cited, and the name of the poster(s) just for a nicer way to tell things apart clearly when someone's looking directly at the source list, and if possible a date for when the source was accessed, in case things happen like posts being changed mildly or even significantly. For posts/etc that have no title, maybe it could be enough to just substitute things like "Twitter post" or "blog entry" where the title in a citation would otherwise be.

I would very much like to hear what anyone else, esp. anyone like admins/other staff, thinks about this suggestion. Sorry if this comes off as me butting in or anything! I'm just very enthusiastic about helping where I can with projects like these that help with cataloguing/chronicling information for easy access.

qwe! 04:51, 6 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Actually I just took a closer look at the style guide and it mentions that Chicago style sources should be used for citing sources. If nobody minds and that is indeed what they are supposed to be, I may end up just hunting around and fixing up existing citations to match that format. I should've looked closer before posting, sometimes I get a bit ahead of myself when I'm excited.
 * qwe! 04:56, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey there! It's great that you want to contribute to the wiki! Feel free to go around the wiki and add nuance. Some reference links may lead to archived versions of blogs, even if that blog is still up, to avoid them becoming unavailable in the future; just to let you know. For academic and published resources there is a template you can use if you wish. Have fun! -LogLot