Talk:Battle of Lambusart

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Citations to the same book

There are a great many citations to the same book. I propose to replace them by repeated named links <ref name=dupuis/>{{rp|183-185}} to a single citation;^[1]^{: 183–185} this will shorten the list of references, and make it clear that the citations are to the same work. Instead of a separate citation for each page, there would be a named citation followed by a page number using the {{rp}} template. I have embedded a couple of examples in this comment. There are other ways to avoid multiple repeated citations which could alternatively be used.^[1]^{: foreword ix}.

^ ^a ^b Dupuis, Victor César Eugène (1907). Les opérations militaires sur la Sambre en 1794: Bataille de Fleurus (in French). https://archive.org/details/lesoprationsmil00histgoog/mode/2up: R. Chapelot et Cie. {{cite book}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)

Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 17:02, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm all for it because I'm really tired of doing individual citations, but I'm really not code-minded enough to handle these Wiki coding things--I'm definitely much better at interpreting historical maps, identifying historical locations and writing up the articles themselves than applying all the myriad programmings and templates that Wiki is full of--is someone able to assist with this? Talamioros (talk) 04:34, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I have figured it out--and it's much more elegant now! Thank you for the suggestion. Took me some time to get it but it works great. Talamioros (talk) 07:24, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge links to Ferraris map?

I've added the Ferraris map to the list of references. I suggest changing the references in the text. Just once we will have, for example,

<ref name=ferraris>Ferraris 1777</ref>{{rp|#66: Merbes le Chateau}}
"Ferrari 1777" refers to the entry in the list of references.
All subsequent references would be like
<ref name=ferraris/>{{rp|#81: Charleroi}}
Obviously some references would have the same {{rp}} section number/name

(I've added examples in the next paragraph) I don't want^[1]^{: #66: Merbes le Chateau} to do this myself in case it meets with disapproval, with the present scheme preferred,^[1]^{: #81: Charleroi} and has to be removed (as has happened on other^[1]^{: #66: Merbes le Chateau} pages).

There are other ways to do this, essentially just putting (Ferraris map 1777, #81: Charleroi) in the text without <ref ... >

^ ^a ^b ^c Ferraris 1777

References

Ferraris, Joseph-Johann-Franz (1777). "Sheet map of the Austrian Netherlands" (Map). Royal Library of Belgium, Maps and Plans Department. [c. 1:11520] (in French). https://www.kbr.be/en/the-ferraris-map/

Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 12:01, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[dupuis-1] Dupuis, Victor César Eugène (1907). Les opérations militaires sur la Sambre en 1794: Bataille de Fleurus (in French). https://archive.org/details/lesoprationsmil00histgoog/mode/2up: R. Chapelot et Cie. {{cite book}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)

[ferraris-2] Ferraris 1777

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