Does it expand an existing citation that someone else has created with "et al" 
which is the scenario here? My experience of it is that I can use it to expand 
an pre-existing naked URL citation (in some cases, exceptions being PDFs) but 
I've never seen a way to use it expand a partial citation to a more fullsome 
one.

Kerry 

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> On 29 Aug 2019, at 10:35 pm, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Kerry Raymond, 29/08/19 01:26:
> > So I think a specific tag to encourage the expansion of "Bloggs et al"
> > citations to full author listings might work.
> 
> But it's easier to fix it yourself, using the citation bot:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UCB
> 
> Greg, 30/08/19 07:48:
>> If the Wikipedia
>> community is not studying its biases and designing tools and strategies for
>> addressing them, it is not reflecting the world, but lagging behind it.
> 
> However, going back to Kerry:
> 
> > In some ways, I think a better solution might be to try to get Google
> > scholar interested in the issue of gender.
> 
> I'm not aware of studies of gender bias in Google Scholar search results 
> themselves, yet we'd really need such basic information before going into 
> specifics of how the research is consumed and redistributed. There is a 
> mention of gender in https://oadoi.org/10.1017/S104909651800094 which states
> 
> > Moreover, because a GS pro-
> > file is a public signal, it can have a disproportionate effect on
> > opinions because a person seeing it knows that others also see
> > it (Chwe 2016).
> 
> Which seems to me an argument very similar to yours on Wikipedia.
> 
> Federico
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