In praise of <ref></ref><references/> - WikiEN-l

10 Apr 2006

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  From: Bryan Derksen &lt;bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca&gt;

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  Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will
help in this
 regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text  
 that it
 is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the  
 page
 being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have
 "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of  
 the
 referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to
 accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was
 unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :) 
Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It  
is, literally, a dream come true.

<hip></hip><hooray/>!

I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for  
a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.