Latest comment: 11 May 2025 by Éowyn in topic Reference citation
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Reference citation
The reference to the preface in the first paragraph does not apply to the entire paragraph. It only applies to how the poem was written by Samwise Gamgee.
The first bullet point on Tolkien Gateway:Manual of Style#References and notes says that "citations are usually at the end of the sentences they support": Usually, not always.
Also, I have seen some editors such as Akhorahil using references exactly like this to avoid confusing readers into thinking that said reference applies to the whole paragraph instead of just the final part of a sentence.Dour1234 (talk) 11:17, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
- The way I read that was that citations could go after other punctuation in the sentence, to cite specific parts of the sentence. I'm admittedly far more used to Wikipedia's citation guidelines (references are placed after adjacent punctuation, not before -Wikipedia:MOS:PF) and as their MOS guidelines generally line up with ours, I (perhaps incorrectly) had assumed that to be the case here too. As long as no one else has a problem with the way you have it cited, that's fine with me. In hindsight, edit warring over the placement of a period was a bit silly so my apologies for that and thanks for the explanation :) ~ Éowyn ☆ talk ~ 15:58, 11 May 2025 (UTC)