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Per WP:CITEVAR, please retain the citation style used in the article. Per WP:SWYGT, convenience links are not required. Please don't continue to restore improperly-formatted citations. Nikkimaria (talk) 11:53, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7#Cite dispute for a similar discussion. The one reformatting references per CITEVAR (I'm not) is responsible for retaining what is in the reference. If that is not possible with cite templates: not my problem, the reference is correct (content, links, presentation for the reader) as given. --Francis Schonken (talk) 12:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"If the article you are editing is already using a particular citation style, you should follow it" (WP:CITEVAR). You are not a beginner editor incapable of following established style, so it is your "problem" to do this. There is no requirement for anyone reformatting references per CITEVAR to retain non-mandatory elements such as convenience links. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:28, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It is not mandatory for any editor to figure out how cite templates work (and whether or not they can deal with external links).
It is mandatory for any editor to provide the WP:SWYGT info when providing a reference. In this case I insist it is retained in whatever format the reference is transformed into. --Francis Schonken (talk) 12:36, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As is explicitly stated in SWYGT, "if you have read [the] book yourself, you may cite it directly; there is no need to give credit to any sources, search engines, websites... it does not matter whether you read the book using an online service like Google Books, [etc]". Thus, convenience links are not required per SWYGT, so you don't get to "insist" they are retained. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:42, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
starts with "if you have read [the] book yourself" – I didn't, so the rest of that paragraph doesn't apply.
Convenience links aren't required. I provided them, which I'm allowed. Don't delete information that is useful for the reader, or the one wanting to check Verifiability on this article. --Francis Schonken (talk) 12:54, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If you didn't read the book in any form (including via Google Books), then how do you know the information you've cited to the book actually appears in it? Nikkimaria (talk) 17:32, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]