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Citations[edit]

Journal

<ref>{{cite journal |last=Najafabadi |first=S. Adel Hashemi |date=2010 |title=The Invention of Islamic History |journal=The International Journal of the Humanities |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=259 |access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref>

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Problems with links to sources on Google Books

Just a pretty minor issue. Sometimes when I'm trying to provide a link to a source from Google Books, part of the url appears in the text of the article, e.g "whose+mother+was+Sukayna+bint+al-Husayn+ibn+Ali" This only seems to happen when the source in question is available in "snippet view" on Google. Any thoughts on how I can avoid this? Thank you.
Alivardi (talk) 00:59, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

It's the quote marks (") in the url.

with the quote marks:

[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u2EkAQAAIAAJ&dq=men+of+medina&focus=searchwithinvolume&q="whose+mother+was+Sukayna+bint+al-Husayn+ibn+Ali"]

→ "whose+mother+was+Sukayna+bint+al-Husayn+ibn+Ali"

without the quote marks:

[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u2EkAQAAIAAJ&dq=men+of+medina&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=whose+mother+was+Sukayna+bint+al-Husayn+ibn+Ali]

→ [1]

with the quote marks percent encoded:

[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u2EkAQAAIAAJ&dq=men+of+medina&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22whose+mother+was+Sukayna+bint+al-Husayn+ibn+Ali%22]

→ [2]

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:06, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: I'm not very familiar with percent encoding. Would typing "%22" in place of quotation marks work in all scenarios? That's the impression I'm getting from the article page but I just wanted to be certain.
Alivardi (talk) 01:16, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

In urls with quote marks that haven't worked right for me, replacing them with %22 has worked for me. Re: your: in all scenarios? That's a lot of scenarios so I cannot say for sure that this will always work.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:34, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

That's probably the best response I can expect from a non-omniscient being, so I'll take what I can get. Thank you!
Alivardi (talk) 01:46, 22 October 2019 (UTC)