bg3wiki:Verification
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We want information on the wiki to be trustworthy, and in some cases, verifiable through external sources.
We use references to inform readers where information on the wiki comes from. See Help:Style manual for details about notes, footnotes, and references.
Alternatively, information may come from a trusted editor who vouches to have done in-game testing or data mining to verify a claim about the game's behavior or content, in which case a reference to an external source is not needed, although an explanatory note or footnote may still be appropriate to clarify some claim or explain how it was determined to be true.
- When are references needed?
Not all information on the wiki needs to have a reference. However, the more difficult it is to find a piece of information in the game, the more important it is to add appropriate references.
- Requesting verification
If you come across information on the wiki without references, or if you don't believe the references are sufficient, you can request verification by adding the {{verify}} template after the sentence or paragraph with the potentially incorrect information. This lets other editors know that something is missing verification.
Do not remove information unless you know it to be incorrect – take it to the Talk Page instead.
Adding references
Use the template {{ref}} to add a reference tag to an article. This template should generally be added at the end of the relevant sentence or paragraph, immediately after punctuation (with no space).
References will only show correctly if you include the {{reflist}} template in the article. To do this, simply add a References section, and add that template as the only content in that section. See the Help:Style manual for details.
| Example | Result |
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Lae'zel is good at sneering.{{ref|Lae'zel's introduction scene.}}
{{reflist}} |
Lae'zel is good at sneering.[1]
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Grouped references
It is possible to add grouped references to articles. These references have an assigned group and will be listed separately from other references
To add a group to a reference simply enter name of the group in the second parameter of the ref template.
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
| Lae'zel is good at sneering.{{ref|Lae'zel's introduction scene.|act1}}
References {{reflist|act1}} |
Lae'zel is good at sneering.[act1 a]
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To list these references, the group must also be added to the t:reflist template, as its first parameter.
Ref tags
It is also possible to add simple references using HTML-like tags, substituting t:ref with <ref> </ref> and t:reflist with <references/>.
Sectional references
It is possible to add references limited to a specific section of an article, by explicitly naming the references to include in the references list:
| Example | Result |
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This is an example text.<ref name="Example 1"/> This is also an example.<ref name="Example 2"/>
<references> <ref name="Example 1">Example reference 1</ref> <ref name="Example 2">Example reference 2</ref> </references> |
This is an example text.[1] This is also an example.[2]
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List of citation templates
- General references
- Use {{ref}} to add a reference. These references are listed by adding {{reflist}} template in the References section of an article. These reference can use any group.
- Links
- Use {{cite web}} to add a URL as a reference. These references always have the url group, and are listed by adding {{reflist|url}} in the References section of an article.
- Texts
- Use {{cite text}} to add an in-game book or as a reference. These references always have the text group, and are listed by adding {{reflist|text}} in the References section of an article.
- Verify
- Use {{verify}} to request verification.
See also
- Pages with the verify template, which lists pages that need verification.
- Category:Citation templates, a list of citation templates.