On 10/3/06, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Right. So consider a paragraph including a reference
that gets cut out
and turned into its own article. And you put a very brief summary
sentence where the paragraph used to go, and you link to the new
article.
Problem: the number of references in the original article just went
down by 1. Are you seriously saying that we really need to come up
with another reference for the sentence? The actual reference is still
there in the new article and it is surrounded by text that it
justifies.
Well, is the statement (if not necessarily the original text) that was
referenced still present in the summary article or not? If it is,
just leave the reference in place (in addition to copying it to the
new article, of course); there's nothing wrong, per se, with
duplicated references.
You can, of course, do a number of other things:
1. Add a footnote that says something like "For sources corroborating
this point, see [[New article]]." It's not necessarily the cleanest
form of citation, but at least it gives readers and future editors an
explicit trail to the references.
2. Condense the citations. For example, if you replace a paragraph
with five citations with a one-sentence summary, cite all five sources
for it.
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Kirill Lokshin