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Anyway just trying to come to your defense '''Update''' Added a little bit and source parameter to Template:Quote, see [[Quote Template Demos|the demos]]. The source can be realistic. It is plain text or a link, thus you could also quote a NPC with a lot of work already link to compile and edit the lore! a NPC article. eg. ''--[[User:Gorgonzola|GorgonzolaMarna]] ([[User talk:Gorgonzola|talk]]) 05:40, 10 October 2014 (CDT) PS: yeah I'll see if I can improve Quote so you can have eg. ' or ''--small talk from [[Marna]]'' at the end of . Any other suggestions welcome :) (I'm planning to add icon parameter so you can make a nice "lore" quote. Let me know if you like that idea or have other ideas for quoting from in-game lorebooks with the book icon). --[[User:Gorgonzola|Gorgonzola]] ([[User talk:Gorgonzola|talk]]) 0510:4714, 10 October 2014 (CDT)
Link to Quote Template Demos =)
I'd just like to support you here because I can see why some people would question where the lore comes from, but on the other hand they have to realize it's just not feasible for the writer to add references everywhere. Especially when you use [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote named references] it becomes a real mess as you have to keep them in order and if you edit text and move it around they may break.
Perhaps one way to emphasize the source of the lore would be to sprinkle the article with a few choice quotes from NPCs or in-game books, with [[Template:Quote]], where a vebratim verbatim quotation of in-game text fits within the section you are writing. If you need improvements to that template I can do them now since Eric added a powerful extension, so we can have optional parameters like the source of the citation. For example in [http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scarab_Plague this GW1 lore] there's no references anywhere, but the "Surviving documents" gives a sense of the in-game source. (edit: well you could say that ''is'' their reference).
On the other hand I like to use refs to link to developer blog posts and in this case you could use them to link back to the lore articles available from the official site. (meaning, the reference also provide further resources to browse).