Tom's point on lag is an important consideration, I tend to use tools such as greasemonkey (see the wiki citation generator direct from Worldcat entries - <http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59173> - Google, The Guardian and others also available) and my local scripts using iMacro to scrape key information from a website and format a neat citation (see attached iMacro javascript for the NY Times). Such tools being client side ensures a quick response and I have had such poor experiences with server site user scripts causing problems that I have invariably switched them off.
Though not an obvious solution for new users, having a standard tool for Google books/news, WorldCat, leading newspapers etc. and possibly working with partners such as Zotero might be a useful alternative path to consider rather than limiting our thinking to the Wikipedia edit box interface. Cheers, Fae
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