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Okay… I'll bite

I'm curious. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:20, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

It's a tale of two {{cite}}s :P

Check out most of the pages with {{cite}} on it. These are ones that are, for the most part, either imported by or written by Wikipedians. {{cite}} on BTW and {{cite}} on Wikipedia currently work very, very differently and are utterly incompatible. I'm replacing instances of the currently correct usage with {{citation needed}} because it's less work to import pages from Wikipedia than it is to import and have to change dozens of citations each time. --Xoid 19:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I got it: Hesperus II uses {{cite}} the same way we use <ref>. If I understand it, we'll start using {{citation needed}} needed instead of {{cite}}, and then allow imported WP pages to use {{cite}} the same way we use <refs>.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I believe they used to use them "semi-interchangeably". Nowadays they actually use the two together, as seen in the pages we have that currently use it (pretty sure I fixed the few that had it used as {{cn}} so any page out of the rest should display correctly now). I still need to clear up the templates a touch, maybe trim out a lot of the crap in, import and refactor their documentation, etc., but that can wait until another day.

You can still use {{cn}} if you're lazy. Pretty sure there isn't a commonly used template with that name. --Xoid 22:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay. I just want to be sure your work is properly documented, so that people don't continue to use the wrong one unknowingly. I think I understand; I just need to view it from the perspective of a new Editor, to be sure.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:03, 19 July 2009 (UTC)