Talk:78th Illinois Infantry Regiment

Consistent citation formatting

According to the guideline, citations should be consistent throughout an article. I changed some to CS1 while I was here fixing a ref name issue, but found this introduced inconsistencies with the unchanged citations. I restored the original formatting in the lower reference section, and the upper reference section now uses cite web. Any opinion on which should be used in both sections? Or, are they close enough, and the sections far enough apart, that an exception would be ok? The main difference is in the volumes, given twice in the original format, the introduction of the website domain (which could be removed) and the position of the author and year. —PC-XT+ 05:53, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I am probably to blame about that. Last night, I noticed that a BOT had flagged the article because of a citation. I tried to fix the problem, but kept running into the same problem. I, too, agree that cite web should be used... I wasn't that familiar with it, but now that I use Provel, which uses cite web, I can edit it with or without easily. I may try this evening to convert the remaining citations to cite web.

Thanks for working on the article. This is one of those that given more time, I will develop further. I have a couple books on the unit, and of course the usual Adjutant General's items. I have worked to develop the timeline, to which I would like to write a short narrative to each. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gparkes (talk • contribs) 19:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

It's looking great, thanks for sharing that knowledge! By the way, the reason the reference broke was that ref names are forgotten after a reflist . Because of this, the ref name="Jasper" must be redefined before it is used under the first reference list, even though it was already defined earlier in the same article. —PC-XT+ 04:21, 25 June 2014 (UTC)