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Citation styles
editA change has been made recently to add quotation marks around the names of all the references in this article. I reverted this citing WP:CITEVAR, but it is reinstated as of today. This disagreement has arisen in the past and been discussed at extreme length: including but not limited to Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 50#RfC: Citation_tools and Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive_43#RfC: Should usage of vertical and horizontal templates fall within WP:CITEVAR. I don't expect anyone to read through the hundreds of comments, but suffice it to say that there was no clear consensus. However, one RfC was closed with the determination that at least one type of non-visible citation formatting was not protected by WP:CITEVAR. There was also general agreement (or disagreement) that neither making such changes nor reverting them was incorrect, leading to an inevitable stalemate with the only thing close to consensus being that edit warring is a bad idea.
So here we are, to quote or not to quote? While the quotation marks still stand in the article, I suggest that persons most likely to make edits in the future may at some point remove them again if they are found to be inconvenience, although some editors in this project do use them. My own policy has been to not make wholesale changes to referencing styles, visible or not, in article that were created with a particular style, although I frequently end up making changes where an article contains a variety of different reference styles. Lithopsian (talk) 16:16, 4 January 2023 (UTC)