Dear Debanjan,
Doing refs one at a time can be a disadvantage. Doing refs from beginning
to end brings more suggestions and options to mind.
See Ref 108 wikitext -
<ref name="Chakrabarty">{{cite book|author=Bidyut
Chakrabarty|title=Social
and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi|url=
http://books.google.com/books?id=4x34We-mY40C&pg=PA138|accessdate=25
January 2012|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-36096-8|page=138}}
</ref>
Very good compared to the one I made below using RefTag which is slightly
better
<ref name="Chakrabarty2006">{{cite
book|last=Chakrabarty|first=Bidyut|title=Social and political thought of
Mahatma Gandhi|url=
http://books.google.com/books?id=4x34We-mY40C&pg=PA138|accessdate=25Jan…
2012|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-36096-8|page=138}}</ref>
Mine is slightly better - the Harvard style refname allows multiple books
by one author to be used and allows seperate refs for each. Also secondly,
Surname first followed by comma followed by firstname is almost always
preferred in GA/FA like this :
author=Chakrabarty, Bidyut | or
last=Chakrabarty | first=Bidyut |
As regards Ref 109, whose wikitext is as follows -
<ref>From Discussion with BG Kher and others, 15 August 1940. Gandhi's
Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram Parkash, p. 67 also in Collected
works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 79 (PDF), p. 122</ref>
Now, if you read all the refs from beginning (in section "Notes") you will
that refs 3 & 4 are also from Collected Works. So checkout the text &
wikitext for one of those, say ref 3 :
Ref 3 text:
Gandhi, M. K. (1982) [10 November 1921]. "The Momentous
Issue"<http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF>025.PDF>.
*Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi*. *25* (electronic ed.). New Delhi:
Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of
India. pp. 76–78. Retrieved 11 January 2012. "*Complete civil disobedience
is rebellion without the element of violence in it. An out and out civil
resister simply ignores the authority of the state. He becomes an outlaw
claiming to disregard every unmoral state law. ...In doing all this he
never uses force and never resists force when it is used against him. In
fact, he invites imprisonment and other uses of force against himself...*"
Ref 3 wikitext :
<ref name="CollectedWorks25">{{cite book |title=Collected Works of
Mahatma
Gandhi|chapter=The Momentous Issue |last=Gandhi |first=M. K.
|authorlink=<!--Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi-->|volume=25 |year=1982 |publisher=Publications Division,
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|location=New
Delhi|isbn=
|edition=electronic |pages=76–78 |url=
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF|quote=''Complete civil
disobedience is rebellion without the element of violence in it. An out and
out civil resister simply ignores the authority of the state. He becomes an
outlaw claiming to disregard every unmoral state law. ...In doing all this
he never uses force and never resists force when it is used against him. In
fact, he invites imprisonment and other uses of force against
himself...''|origyear=10
November 1921 |accessdate=11 January 2012}}</ref>
Now, examine this carefully, I constructed it by hand:
I choose to format it like a book using "cite book" template, not a web
site in which case "cite web" is more suitable, or, as an online pdf
document stored, in which case I would have used "citation".
I added the usual fields, but I found from a previous reference a very good
url of
Gandhiserve.org. where each & every volume of Gandhi Collected Works
can be accessed by just fiddling the urls.
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF
By changing 25 in the url to 79 we get the desired url for the new ref 109!
In this case, since we can get open access to the volume 79, the Collected
Works url is used and we get rid of Gandhi's Wisdom Box part of the
reference. The new reference for 109 becomes :
<ref name="CollectedWorks79">{{cite book |title=Collected Works of
Mahatma
Gandhi|chapter= Discussion with BG Kher and others |last=Gandhi |first=M.
K. |authorlink=<!--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-->|volume=79 |year=1980
|publisher=Publications
Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|location=New
Delhi|isbn= |edition=Electronic |pages=121-122 |url=
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL079.PDF|quote=|origyear=15 August
1940 |accessdate=26
January 2012}}</ref>
Here, the information I got was from the following sources :
* "chapter" is name of concerned document in the valley.
* "origyear" is the date when the letter was actually sent, in this case 15
August 1940
* Edition=Electronic, why because this index of all Gandhiserve collected
works volume, specifies that this should be the version of the book
inreference :
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/cwmg.html
* "year" is the year of publication by Publications Division of Ministry of
I&B, GOI). This I got by finding the Google Books page on Vol 79 of
Collected Works :
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Collected_works.html?id=DYRDAAAAYAAJ&…
With all these chhota mota inputs, I crafted the reference.
GTG now, too sleepy,
Happy Republic Day!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debastein(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I shall discuss this one with you
in detail a bit
later. Right now, tell me about this reference, look at references nos.
108, 109. I added 108 as a verifiable link, but 109 was so well formatted,
I thought not to remove it without asking you. What is your take on it?
Should I remove it.
Also, 108 has also been referred once before, i.e. 37. Is it not possible
to merge the two with different page nos. I used the ref name as same, but
it merged with the previous reference as ab in superscript but the problem
was, it only showed pg 91 of the first reference, and not pg 138 of the
second link. What I wanted to do it point a towards pg 91 while b towards
pg 138, is that possible?
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Regards,
Debanjan*
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