Ace Attorney Wiki:References

If you got to this page by following a "citation needed" link, it was placed there because a contributor feels that the preceding statement is likely to be challenged, and therefore needs an inline citation. If you can provide a source to back up the statement, please be bold and add it. If not, please exercise extra caution when using the flagged information.

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Should I cite sources?
Here at the Ace Attorney Wiki, we are currently more lax about citing sources than most other wikis are. This is because most of the information pertaining to the Ace Attorney series comes directly from the games. Of course, ideally everything should have a source and everyone is invited to cite sources for information; if you feel that any statement made on the wiki is likely to be challenged you can do any of the following:


 * 1) Add "" by typing in.
 * 2) Challenge it yourself on the article's talk page.
 * 3) Cite the source (explained below) if you know where it comes from.

It is especially imperative, however, that information that is not found in the games or in the Court Records fansite be fully sourced.

Methods of Referencing
There are no set-in-stone requirements for how to reference, but generally you want to include as much information as possible in the reference.

Books
You would reference a novel as follows:



the first time you use it in an article and each additional time you would reference it this way:



Note that slash; that is very important.

This would put a small superscript number (such as [1]) right after the referenced information. Clicking on the number will take the reader to the actual reference, which would appear on the bottom of the screen. The same number appears each time the same reference is repeated.

Ace Attorney mangas are coming out in September, so this might be helpful for that.

Web Page
You would reference an online source this way:



and each additional time you would reference it this way:



Quotations as References
You can (and should) use quotes from the games as references.



It ends up looking like this:



This one is complicated, as it involves two characters exchanging views. Be sure to use  to separate the sentences, and begin each sentence with the appropriate character's name, in bold.

Just One Source
Some articles are taken entirely (or almost entirely) from one source. In this case, you could just reference the page as follows:


 * ==References==  Akira EX (2008-04-07). "This Week's Famitsu: Gyakuten Not-Saiban: Gyakuten Kenji/Perfect Prosecutor". Play.tm. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.

You do this instead of using the tags.