Stand Up Eight about confusion with weblog citations. I have the same problem, and I’m inventing some quidelines for myself:
- add link to the post (almost always)
- add link to the author’s name or weblog homepage (sometimes; if I’m not lazy or have that in my shortcuts)
- use blue indented style for the citations
- add “via this weblog” if I can track from there it came
But in some more difficult cases I’m not sure what to do: all the participants have different styles of citing and it gets totally difficult for the reader to recognise the original discussion.
I would be happy with some kind of general tags that describe each element of a citation:
- author + link to the page
- blog title + link to the homepage
- post title + permalink
- cited text
- may be more…
Than each author can specify more specific style for a citation in blog templated. In this case if I would cite citings of others they would be formatted with the same style as I use.
This is a bit complicated solution, probably it’s easier just to have agreed guidelines and to use them :)
See also a follow-up post Recurse, Reuse, and Problems with Proper Attribution by gRadio
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