Talk:Tell it to the Marines

Use in Anthony Trollope's /The Prime Minister/

I had a little bit of trouble figuring out how to cite this. I do actually have a physical copy of the book, so I could cite that, but isn't it good for sources on Wikipedia to be universally checkable? I guess ideally it would be a normal citation for a physical book, but then be like, "view a version of the book online here ->". (I was surprised there isn't any sort of template set up for content on Gutenberg.) Also, ideally the book would be in the bibliography once, but referenced three different times in the text, each referring to a different page (in a physical book) or chapter (if we only have the Gutenberg edition to go off). I'm not sure how to make that work with Wikipedia's citation system. PiNerd3 (talk) 06:12, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Tom Baker era

The use of the phrase in Day Of The Daleks is well-known, but where is the reference in the Tom Baker era? "In the Tom Baker era (1975-1980), the phrase would be used again in the same way from time to time, letting the Brigadier know the Doctor needed rescuing." It should be cited. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 17:59, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Wellll... yeah, they both need a ref, as "is well-known" is not a ref. You may tag any material you like with {{citation needed}} and wait awhile and, if nobody refs it, delete it (I usually wait a year or more; there's no hurry). Or -- better -- find the refs yourself, if you can. A lot of stuff ref'd to scripts isn't ref'd here -- in fact, it might be a common allowed practice not to, not sure -- because the obvious source is generally the primary source of the script, and and the reader can be assumed to be able to figure that out. However, the Tom Baker stuff doesn't give on particular script for the reader to look up, so yea on second that that needs to be ref'd; the Dalek thing gives the particular episode so I guess that's different Herostratus (talk) 02:54, 24 November 2020 (UTC)