Talk:Germany

References style

Richard, I changed the heading of the references section back to be compliant to Help:Citation_style and most approved articles. Please contact me if you think it should be different. -- Alexander Wiebel 05:03, 19 January 2008 (CST)

well I started with "references" but disliked it so switched to "notes" because that is what they are (ie endnotes or footnotes, which sometimes are discusrsive). "references" is a leftover from Wikipedia I think. The Chicago Manual of Style, which we usually use, prefers Notes for "literature, history and the arts", with "references" used mostly for lists of titles in science (which never are discursive). (Manual of Style 15th edition p 594) There is no statement of policy at CZ, and a quick glance at approved articles shows three forms are in common use, reference (esp technical articles), notes (esp in history) and nothing at all (and "citations" is used for Shirley Chisholm) I believe no one has raised the issue beforee so we should think it over..Richard Jensen 05:59, 19 January 2008 (CST)

I just had a quick look into six or seven geography journals. The articles in these journals used "References" with one exception, a "History of Geography" journal. This "history"-journal used "Notes", supporting your claim for history articles. ... So, I think the question we have to answer is: are articles about countries more geography or history related. What do you think? -- Alexander Wiebel 07:06, 19 January 2008 (CST)

Well, I plan to add the history sooner or later! (see Poland. I think the real reason is that I like to tuck in recondite info in the notes, and that's not really allowed in the reference style. I also added some demography. Richard Jensen 07:30, 19 January 2008 (CST)

Perhaps we should continue this discussion in the forum (http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1198.0.html). There is a related tread. -- Alexander Wiebel 07:42, 19 January 2008 (CST)