Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-25654456-20200526044809/@comment-27435762-20200527150510

I like the abbreviations idea, but only if there's a mass of refs. I'd write the first citation of a source to look something like Assassin's Creed [Game] ("AC [Game]") – [Memory] so readers know which game we mean later, but that's personal taste. Think of it as citing (Smith, John. Work, p.X), then ref'ing it later as (Smith, p.X). We know ACR = Revelations, but only because we play the games. As for acronym confusion, why not use the ones written in the Era Icons? Thus, Revelations, Rogue, and Rebellion are RV, RG, and RB, respectively.

My view on double links is on Sol's talk page, but in short, I see it as unneeded; we've already linked AC2 – Memory X, so why link AC2 on the same page again for Memory Y? But so long as the formatting with or without duplicates is consistent on a page, I don't think I'll mind.

As precise as proper APA/MLA/etc citations are, I feel they'd drag on casual readers, never mind being an insane workload here, what with 15K pages (and counting!). The {{Cite}} template also has already encoded a format, so why adopt another one for games? I'm fine with quotation marks in refs. A little specificity to as broad a citation as [Database] or [Weapon] can't hurt.