[WikiEN-l] Why are URLs numbered?

[Thomas Dalton]

On 05/09/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
> So typing the following in the article text:
>
> <ref name="MyLife">Ryan, Mark. ''My Life as a List Administrator''
> (2007) London: Bloomsbury.</ref>
>
> would obviously output:
>
> 1. Ryan, Mark. ''My Life as a List Administrator'' (2007) London: Bloomsbury.
>
> And then later in the article text you'd go something like:
>
> <reflink name="MyLife">p. 18</reflink>
>
> and it would output:
>
> 2. Above [no. 1], p. 18
>
> Is that what people mean? Or are they looking for a way to copy out
> the contents of the earlier ref tag, to make output like this?:
>
> 2. Ryan, Mark. ''My Life as a List Administrator'' (2007) London:
> Bloomsbury. p. 18
>
>
> Either way, the referencing system could use some more functionality like this.

I don't see any reason to assign it number 2. Just leave it as number
one, and put [1, p 18] in the text, linking to footnote 1.