Using the abbr Element
I'm not sure we can really consider this as an abbreviation, neither an acronym, so I don't think using the abbr element here is appropriate.
However, it would be easy to get the same appearance by using CSS.
This should give you the same appearance than the abbr attribute (I copied the appearance given to it by Firefox, IE and Google Chrome might give it a different appearance):
[confirm]
</syntaxhighlight>
Result:
[confirm]
20 February 2012- Isn't abbr deprecated anyways? It's much better to avoid using deprecated elements. ( Scarfacial | Message | Talk )
- Abbr, deprecated? No... I think you're thinking about the acronym element, which is effectively deprecated. 21 February 2012
"Confirm"? Seriously?
Confirm is a verb or something or other like that, I never bothered to learn my verbs from my adverbs and such.
It should say "Citation needed" like wikipedia, or "Requires confirmation".
Currently it implies they can click on it to confirm what they just read- It's (excuse my baby-english) a doing word, rather than a statement, which it should be
Trappingnoobs (Writer) Have I done something bad? Good? Tell me on my talk page 22:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)- Noted. Template now displays "unconfirmed". --Anaminus 00:13, 2 March 2012 (EST)
- I actually thought about changing it to "confirmation needed", but I forgot to do it. 2 March 2012
- I prefer citation needed...
- It has nothing to do with citations. This template shouldn't be put after every single statement that doesn't have a reference to go with, it should be put after statements you are not completely certain of. Therefore, it has nothing to do at all with citations. It just means that you are not sure about that statement and that someone should verify that it is indeed right. 4 March 2012