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::::::::FYI, in my browser, hovering over a short citation opens a flyover with short citation details, and when I hover on THAT it opens a flyover with the long citation details … so I click just once. [[User:Elrondil|Elrondil]] ([[User talk:Elrondil|talk]]) 05:51, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::That's not as straightforward as {{t|cite}}. [[User:Chumpih|<span style="text-shadow: 2px 2.5px 3px #448811bb">Chumpih</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Chumpih|t]]</sup> 17:51, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
::::::::::True, there is an extra "level of indirection", but which enables (1) moving of the page or ___location from being inline to that extra level of indirection and (2) more control over how the long citations are organised. I see the benefits and costs of both approaches, and personally I think that should be the reader's choice (through a configuration setting), but instead Wikipedia editors have spend decades fighting over this, and will continue to … until each individual reader gets to choose how they feel at any moment: light mode or dark mode, sans serif or serif font, large text or small text, long citations or short citations, DMY or MDY dates, American or British or Australian or Hibernian or Indian English, metric or imperial units first, and so on.
::::::::::In the meantime, we can still try to be as consistent as possible for the sake of readability by Wikipedia readers (that is, not author-centric but reader-centric), and to link any short and long citations that ARE there to pick up and correct mismatches (there are plenty) and at least ENABLE that extra hover or click instead of leaving it to readers to manually having to make the connection. Instead we have this ridiculous Lilliputian but cleverly-named [[WP:CITEVAR]] (or "Cite War") stand off with both short and long at the same time in the same articles. [[User:Elrondil|Elrondil]] ([[User talk:Elrondil|talk]]) 22:25, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
::::{{reply to |Chumpih}} However, if there does end up being consensus for regressing the normalizing {{t|cite Q}}s to de-normalized {{t|cite book}}s etc., that could easily be done by adding <code>|expand=yes</code> to the {{t|cite Q}}s and taking it from there. [[User:Elrondil|Elrondil]] ([[User talk:Elrondil|talk]]) 06:43, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
:But what are "standard Cites"? 😀 There is no such thing in Wikipedia and everyone does what they want anyway. [[User:Elrondil|Elrondil]] ([[User talk:Elrondil|talk]]) 02:58, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
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