Wiki for a better world:Citations

This is a page about citing sources. This wiki doesn't conform perfectly to academic standards, but we do our best.

Types

Not all citations are gathered in the same place. There are several types:

On this wiki, a lot of citations might be nonstandard, improper, or even lacking completely. There are a few reasons for this:

I'm currently trying to build content as quickly as possible, and have to cover a lot of topics.
Workflow: I tend to read dozens of research papers or articles, go for a walks, reflect on the knowledge, read more etc., until I have a clear understanding. By the time I start writing, I can't always track which piece of knowledge came from which source.
If I spend too much time formalizing citations, I lose perspective and forget some of the main points that need to be made(...)( along with subpoints and finer details too - it's too easy to derail my train of thought and forget to cover the subtopics I was planning to cover ). There seems to be an inherent tradeoff here: Other wikis and academic journals are great at gathering information cited properly, but terrible at informing clear actions or "getting to the point". I have to sacrifice some pedantry(...)( and at least some of it can still fit into expandables like this ) for the sake of easy reading. And I can always go back and fix the citations later when there's more time.