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Cite, requirement of sources?

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LittleGun (talkcontribs)

I am no programmer or website creator, so please pardon my very layman language.

When using the automatic cite-tool in VisualEditor the result from the source vary. I had the following result using just the url to a random article for New York Times and a random article from Swedish source Sveriges Radio:

The New York Times article is perfect. The Sveriges Radio have at least the following problems: "Sveriges Radio" is interpreted as the author (first and last name). sverigesradio.se should be written as Sveriges Radio". This error from Sveriges Radio is very consequent.

Many other Swedish sources works as badly, but others dont. Among the once working fine are many small local papers. That has led me to believe there is some standard or harmonised guideline for how to fill in a header for web pages, that is not very work intensive. And that Visual Editor uses this standardized way.

What should I tell the webmaster at Sveriges Radio, so they can standardise and harmonice its headers in the same way?

LittleGun (talkcontribs)

Maybe there is no use to try to discuss with webasters?

What, and how, can a user do to improve the VisualEditor source tool to interpret information from sources?

LittleGun (talkcontribs)

Hmm. Not a word. Have I posted this in the wrong place?

Folly Mox (talkcontribs)

User:LittleGun, the citation generation backend for VisualEditor is Citoid. The output of this library is deeply unreliable for many webpages for a number of reasons. There's some history of discussion at Talk:Citoid from around a year ago, but it doesn't seem like much has changed in the interim. Folly Mox (talk) 11:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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