Template talk:Primary sources references section

Default formatting

(pinging @Elli and @Queen of Hearts as users who created and majorly improved the template) finally saw this template for the first time, it is very helpful! I wish however that it used the plain dagger rather than the double dagger. in my own work, I have been using the dagger symbol a lot, since it takes priority over the doubled one and is more commonly used as a footnote marker, just after the asterisk (which can't be used here I believe). if others support this, I request that the articles that are using the double dagger be updated accordingly to use the new default instead, a short bot script could so that.

I would also remove or hide by default the line about the formatting (In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):), as I don't believe it is that important, but others may disagree. Juwan (talk) 00:06, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No strong opinion on the first bit. I'm not sure a change would be necessary since you can override it -- but maybe a dagger would be more semantically correct? As for the line I do think it's somewhat helpful, but again, no strong opinion. I'll leave any changes up to others. Elli (talk | contribs) 01:43, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]