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ahsteele
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Add the ability to cite questions and answers

The Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange sites have a great feature that allows a user to quickly create a citation to answers and questions. This is accomplished by clicking share and then clicking cite:

Example of citation creation from Mathematics Stack Exchange

The feature even provides the BibTex and amsrefs LaTeX formats which can be simply copy and pasted but would obviously be less useful on other sites.

Currently I am working on a paper on User Experience and have need to reference several articles from that site. Having the ability to quickly cite each question / answer would be incredibly helpful. While I agree adding the ability to easily cite is more applicable to certain SE sites this seems like a frictionless feature with a lot of benefit.

Is there a reason this feature isn't available across the entire Stack Exchange network? Is this something that each Stack Exchange site needs to decide within its community (i.e. I need to move this discussion to meta.ux.se)? Can the ability to cite question and answers please be added to all other Stack Exchange sites?

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