One Piece Wiki:Guidebook/Referencing Information

What is sourcing information?
Its referencing where information comes from such as a chapter of a book.

Why Reference?
There are many reasons why it is important to reference a piece of information.


 * 1) It makes it easy to look up the information on the page and check its correct.
 * 2) It proves the information is not fan Speculations.
 * 3) It allows others to look up the information themselves if they want to read further into the subject matter.

Without referencing, much of what is written on a page cannot be taken as legit, even if it is.

How do I reference?
Referencing is easy.


 * 1) Start off with the code:  {{qref 
 * 2) Then give it a unique name such as:  {{qref|name=Example1 
 * 3) Next we add more information:  {{qref|name=Example1|chapter=3|text=Luffy beat Sir Crocodile 
 * 4) Then we close the coding with }} so it ends up look like this:  {{qref|name=Example1|chapter=3|text=Luffy beat Sir Crocodile}} '''
 * 5) The last thing to do is add the following coding to a page (if it isn't already there somewhere):

 ==References== 

 

For reference to a book, episode, movie, so on... go to Template:Qref.

The End Result
After this the page will contain the reference. It will look like a number in a square like this: and appear in the references section like this:

Alternative Method

 * 1) Write:  

The advantage of this method is it is quicker to do and easier to remember for those new to wiki editing. However the disadvantage of this style of referencing is that you can't multi-source so it is recommended that you only use this if you do not intend to create multple page references linked to the same source.