User talk:Alexwright

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Unistd.h

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Non-free rationale for File:TWK Drink.jpg

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Citation style

I have a few issues with your citation style. It refuses to use the actual titles of works, which then lead to invented titles that could be constituted as an original synthesis of their contents, which are never allowed on Wikipedia. They also require access dates, to ensure that the content is being cited as of a specific time period (as the cited page may change). ViperSnake151 Talk 03:48, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cool cool, I imagine in the cases you're thinking of I was trying to make the citation descriptive, perhaps in the absence of a really obvious title (the url is the title isn't it (!) ). I suspect I may be too used to writing commit message.

I'll try to include cite-dates and archive copies from the wayback machine and use more neutral titles in the absence of a clearly defined title. That said, people who are influenced by the bias found in titles names in footnotes are trying very hard indeed: when I look at a reference it is to read the reference rather than it's title... but yes, standards and consistency and all that jazz. (Alex Wright (talk) 19:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC))[reply]

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