Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu

This is a list of pre-formatted citations to articles archived at archive.org or other acceptable web sites which were originally transcribed at the Library of Mu, for use with The Template of Mu: {{LibraryOfMu}}.

The list is constructed to optimise the ease of replacing existing references which do not currently use any citation template; the entries are by library ID number. Of course the list may also be used to find and add new references.

If you clean up all the references via the Library of Mu in an article, please add the article to the list down below so that other editors know that it does not need to be attended to.

Instructions

To modernise a reference, look for the id number in the url string and search for it here. If it is extant, click "edit" on the section of this page to copy the wikitext and paste it inside the <ref> tags in the article.

If the id is not already listed here

If the id is not listed here, please carefully fill the reference using the {{LibraryOfMu}} template and add it here and to the article.

Find the page at The Wayback Machine or another web archive. (Try the old domain www.libraryofmu.org in the Wayback Machine if the page isn't listed under www.libraryofmu.net)

Open the link and copy over the data about the entry:

Do

Have a look at some existing entries below if this is your first time using the template
Copy the library id number into the mu-id field e.g. mu-id=519
Bear in mind that the template is defaults to using {{Cite magazine}}, so only parameters which work in that template - plus the library id - are valid; the tl parameter can be used to change the underlying citation template
Ensure the archive-url and archive-date parameters are used (they are now mandatory)
Add as much information as possible about the original source such as the author's first and last names, an authorlink to the author's Wikipedia entry if they have one, the name of the original journal or publication in the work parameter (wikilinked if, as in most cases, the original publication has an article e.g. work=[[NME]]), and the date and title of the piece
Add any additional text which is necessary after the template closing brackets, but prefer to use template parameters where possible

Do not

Include the url parameter. It is disabled.
Include a website parameter except in the extremely rare cases where the Library of Mu holds a record originally from a web-only publication and not a newspaper, magazine or journal
Credit the Library of Mu as the website or source, or the Librarian of Mu as the author. The Library of Mu is a library, not a source
Use an initial followed by a dot in the first field as this seems to break the template

Saving to the Wikipedia article

It is recommended to preview before saving
Check the generated external link to ensure the correct article is referenced

Finding a reference by id

To find the pages where an article is referenced, add the number after a / to the URL of this page, and use "What links here".

For example, this is the list of references to id 387, Jim Reid's eyewitness account of the K Foundation burning a million quid: Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_KLF/LibraryOfMu/387

Other citation templates

Whilst not related only to sources stored at the Library of Mu, I will list here for ease of reference some of the "Cite xxx" templates which are most likely be relevant to KLF articles:

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{{Cite AV media}} - Can be used to cite musical recordings
{{Cite AV media notes}} - Can be used to reference sleeve notes
{{Cite book}} (see further details below)
{{Cite episode}} - For television or radio programs and episodes, e.lg. a documentary program about the KLF which was an episode of a documentary series
{{Cite news}}
{{Cite magazine}}
{{Cite press release}} (I wouldn't use for KLF Communications Info Sheets, as they were sent out to fans, but this can be used for e.g. record company press releases
{{Cite sign}} - For signs, plaques, and other non-video visuals (so that would include graffiti and posters! However, we generally - but possibly not always - cite secondary sources for those)
{{Cite web}} - General web references

Also:

{{KLFDiscography}} to cite the KLF Discography
{{Allmusic}} to cite AllMusic. Example:

{{Allmusic|id=mn0000627485|title=Brilliant|first=Dan|last=Leroy|tab=biography|accessdate=5 March 2020}}

Leroy, Dan. Brilliant at AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

Books

If a book is cited regularly, with different page numbers, this can cause the citations list to grow. Tentative research suggests that the preferred way of dealing with this is in order:

From Template:Rp/doc#Notice: One citation as normal using {{Cite book}} for each page number, until that becomes excessive (let's say more than 3 entries in the reflist? --- if it looks from the outset like an article will use the book a lot, it's easier to start as you mean to go on, however i.e. the next option)
Otherwise, have one ref name for the book, and follow the citation with a {{rp}} or a {{r}}, which adds a page number and optionally a quotation after the numbered inline citation. This template may go away and be replaced by built-in functionality in the ref tag but a bot would take care of retiring the template. [Reportedly some editors don't like this template]
- Example: {{rp|95–96}}
- Example: {{rp|higgs|p=95–96}}
- Or if using not directly after the declaration of the reference:
Or put the book into the references section above the reflist, and use {{sfn}} [Reportedly some editors don't like this either, and it seems less desirable than the above option to me as the references section would contain both a book and a reflist - messy. I am not going to recommend this for WP:KLF articles]

Specific books

Drummond, Bill (2000). 45. Little, Brown. ISBN 0316853852.
Higgs, John (26 September 2013). The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 9781780226552.
Shirley, Ian (7 August 2017). Turn Up The Strobe: The KLF, The JAMMs, The Timelords - A History. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 9781909454637.

Untitled pieces

To add a reference to an item without a name (such as a news item), use the Library template with the parameters |tl=citation|mode=cs1. See #357 as an example.

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Wilkinson, Roy (8 November 1986). "The Man". Sounds (review). Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.

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"The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu". Underground Magazine (interview). March 1987. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.