Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Wikicite/feature requests (section)

===Reference semantics===
Encouraging semantic mark up, migration to future systems should be easy.  If existing citations use formats which identify the components (Title, Author, etc.), machine conversion to new formats can be done.

* The use of correct name tags according to the style recommendations should allow automatic generation of author / page information and nice titles.

* As shown in [[Cite_your_sources#Citation_templates]], at present different templates are used for book, journal, and web references due to existing programming.  However, there should be a single "Citation" template which can be given all types of sources and allows omission of fields.

====Citation components====
The present approach of trying to make inconspicuous links to references is a good start (see [[Wikipedia:Footnote3]]).  Even if a single endnote has several Templates for different components, at least everything is identified.

* At present the [[Template:Journal_reference]] does not accept a [[digital object identifier]] although DOI is intended to provide a permanent web link to a journal article, so a separate [[Template:Doi]] has to be added.

* A journal article or book may have an associated web site but presently each has to be given as a separate item.

* A single source may have several components to refer to.  One part of an article may refer to a book, while another part may refer to the web site for that book.  Or several citations may refer to different pages within the same book. Future citation tools may allow such distinctions while retaining the relationship between sources.