HymnWiki:Sources

Sources

Create proper and useful sources for everything you post. The things you post may include such as the following, among other things:

• Composers
• Lyricists
• Hymn publication dates
• Birth and death dates of hymnists
• Posted sheet music (and list yourself as the contributer if you engraved the sheet music)
• Posted lyrics (or list yourself as the contributer if you wrote the lyrics)

Common Problems

• Please do not post lyrics without posting a source for those lyrics (unless you wrote them yourself, in which case you should tell us so—list yourself as the contributer or some such). We need to be able to distinguish between the lyrics of various hymnals (they are not always the same—and if they are, heed this anyway). Our goal is not to be efficient with the lyrics posted. There will often be multiple sets in articles (each from a different hymnal or arranger/lyricist who posted them). If you see lyrics without a source, put them in the Unsourced Lyrics category.
• Also please do not post lyrics with a source wherein you did not copy your lyrics verbatim from that source. Don't post lyrics from your memory and attribute it to a hymnal. Do not post lyrics from copyrighted hymnals (unless you own the copyright for the entire hymnal). Do not post lyrics from sources with unverified copyright status. If you need help, please ask for it.

How to Add Sources

• You should include the full title, publication date, and hymn or page number of all sources: e.g. Hymns of Faith and Fortitude, 1909, no. 37
• Make the source a link to an online copy of it, if available (such can often be found through Google Books or Openlibrary.org).
• To create a source with footnotes, use the following tags to create a footnote linking to your source: <ref>Whatever your source is</ref>. Then, under a heading for references or footnotes (create one if there is none: i.e. =References= on its own line), put the following tag and nothing else: <references/>

Example

=Lyrics=
*Poet: FirstName LastName (year range), publication date<ref>publicationDateSourceTitle, dateOfSource, pageNumberOfSource</ref>
==Lyrics from [hymnalURL hymnalTitle, dateHymnalWasPublished, pageNumberOrHymnNumber]==
…

=References=
<references/>