[WikiEN-l] Deterioration: losing references

[Bryan Derksen]

Matt Brown wrote:
> On 4/10/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was
>> unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
>>     
>
> I've already had one editor remove my references in this format,
> seemingly out of not liking it.  Reverted and posted to his talk page
> and he hasn't done it again, but it was annoying.
>   
I've wound up in "fights" over switching to the new reference formatting 
twice now. But I remember similar problems back when the automatic image 
thumbnailing feature was added to Wikimedia, with people who'd spent a 
lot of effort creating separate thumb-sized versions of images getting 
bent out of shape when their hard work started getting orphaned and 
deleted as redundant, and eventually everyone came around to the new 
way. I suspect this too shall pass.