Thread:1mmorta1Zero/@comment-1463998-20171118115036/@comment-1463998-20171125131251

Well I tried to use Chicago Style of referencing... but I came up with that only some years after I founded this wiki, so many articles don't use this style of referecing cause they were made before the wiki.

There's more on this here: http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Gongjin%27s_Campaign_Memorials:Article_Layout#How-to:_Referencing

But it's okay if you just do it like here: http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Yellow_Turban_Rebellion#References

I think the good thing about using Rafe as a source, or any other English professional text for that matter, is that readers can verify that what you've written. Wikipedia seems to refer more and more to Chinese texts, but hardly anyone can verify that. Their references section on a 3K article is filled with hanzi, but I think that's useless to I guess about 95% of the readers, and that kind of kills the whole purpose of having references.

I refer to SGZ (or HHS or JS) quite often. They're almost always mentioned under the Sources header, but a lot less under the References header.

I'm glad you're being so careful when you use online translations though, and please don't take this conversation the wrong way. It's not an attack or anything, just a quick reminder of the rules and my hopes of making a wiki that is considered as reliable by the viewers. And, well, I think KMA is a better website than this one, so I don't refer to it very often. If I do would I not be basically sending my readers to KMA?

Probably Rafe makes mistakes too. Didn't check what you said about 208/196, but I know he even listed a never existing Yellow Turban rebel in his Biographical Dictionary. Everybody makes mistakes. But I don't doubt Rafe makes far less than KMA for example. Not all of them have been written by KMA people, but many of them were also picked from various internet fora about the time KMA was founded.