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Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Easily add page numbers with "cite" automatic button for books and then easily "reuse" listed book references with/without new page number(s) if needed./Proposal

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  • Problem: Adding book references is more difficult than adding press articles with an url in Wikipedia's articles with the "cite" button.
  • Proposed solution: Why ? It is best described with an example :

Use the "Cite" button ; add the ISBN of a book ; click generate (until there it is working fine!) ; But now you can't add the page number(s) of the book (*) ! This must be available easily for the average user. After that, all the things can be automated by code!

Bonus: once you have added the book in the References section, you should be able to use the Cite button/reuse to reuse the book with the same page number or not!

Voila! No need to use complex templates (create sfn template with anchors,...). edit: (*) For ebooks, we could use chapter number and/or start/end of the relevant citation.

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