User:Dmcq/Summary statement
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All material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable published source. A statements in an article may summarize parts of the article itself, in this case the statement is attributable to a section of the article itself. Summary statements may not be attributable to another article.
Summary statements are typically used in the lead of an article or in the introduction to a section with subsections.
Key principles
The problems with copying the citations from the section being summarized to the summary statement are:
- It divorces the lead from the article in as much as instead of describing a part of the article it is describing what is in a source instead.
- Citations get duplicated meaning people must learn about named citations or have a mess at the end.
- The leader tends to have a long list of citations after individual statements since they summarize a number of sources.
- It makes the leader stilted and less approachable instead of being an easy introduction into the article.
These problems are made worse by the way readers are likely to put a {{citation needed}} into the lead of an article since the lead is the first place they see the problem.
Summary style citations
A summary citation refers to what's summarized.
For example 'Monsoons in Mojimbe regularly kill thousands of people.[Monsoons]' refers to the section 'Monsoons' instead of listing the various citations from that section.
Problems in summary statements
- {{summary disputed}} where someone thinks the summary is plain wrong or misleading
- {{summary improve}} where it just doesn't summarize reasonably well
See also
Notes
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