There is no better or worse. Certain citation styles want you to only give the first page. It's enough information to find the article. It also saves space in a bibliographic entry if you want a condensed format.
@adamsmith Ah ok that makes sense. But why is there an additional variable for this purpose? E.g. short-title is deprecated because it has to be implemented via form="short". Why isn't this method used for page?
It could be handled either way, but handling it via a new form attribute ('short' doesn't seem right here) has no advantage and it so it stays how it was originally introduced to avoid unnecessary changes. It's distinct from title-short and container-title-short because those actually do rely on the presence of different variables in the metadata and have fall-back behavior. I don't think calling them deprecated as in we do in the specs is quite right-- testing for if variable="title-short" is the only way to check if there's a short title in the metadata, which some styles do. They just shouldn't, ideally, be used in text variable calls.
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Certain citation styles want you to only give the first page. It's enough information to find the article. It also saves space in a bibliographic entry if you want a condensed format.
Ah ok that makes sense. But why is there an additional variable for this purpose? E.g. short-title is deprecated because it has to be implemented via form="short". Why isn't this method used for page?
It's distinct from title-short and container-title-short because those actually do rely on the presence of different variables in the metadata and have fall-back behavior. I don't think calling them deprecated as in we do in the specs is quite right-- testing for if variable="title-short" is the only way to check if there's a short title in the metadata, which some styles do. They just shouldn't, ideally, be used in text variable calls.