Last modified: 2009-10-22 14:10:32 UTC
summary: please either * enable a user-friendly way to link from an article's text to Book Sources such that the link in the article displays the book's title (or other text), not the ISBN. * if already enabled, show how to do so in How_to_edit_a_page details: Given an article that mentions a given book, I'd like to better link from the article to resources about that book. I (et al) have in the past made links from articles to the Amazon page for a given book. That allows links that displays a book's title, or other desired article text, but has obvious problems (e.g. dependence on and possibly implied preference for a particular vendor). Linking to Book Sources seems an obvious solution, but its linking currently seems inflexible. Consider the following usecase: I read an article about an author that mentions a book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_van_Heerden > For a time LSU told him not to talk to the media, amid concerns that > his book The Storm was endangering federal grant money flowing to The citation above had no link, so I sought to add one. I know the book's ISBN=0670037818 and I verified that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0670037818 works. So I try editing as follows: editor > amid concerns that his book [[0670037818|''The Storm'']] was fails editor > amid concerns that his book [[ISBN 0670037818|''The Storm'']] was fails editor > amid concerns that his book [[BookSources:0670037818|''The Storm'']] was fails editor > amid concerns that his book > [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=0670037818 > ''The Storm''] was Works, so I went with that, despite being IMHO a kludge. Please allow a (or document existing) better alternative.
You have to write the Namespace for Special:BookSources. This works: > [[Special:BookSources/0670037818|The Storm]]
Resolving WFM.
added documentation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#booksources