<DIV>I have no problem whatsoever in having a list of references at the end of the article. I must not have understood what was being proposed. The original proposal sounded as if the requester wanted a citation next to each assertion. That I would oppose.</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>>Currently, we have almost no references (I would<BR>>estimate 1 in 50 articles have references). To require<BR>>citations on all of them would be ridiculous.<BR>><BR>Why? Notice how 1911EB has a little para of refs glued onto the<BR>end of each article, and they're not much noticed, but their length<BR>is easier to see if you turn into bulleted list. Modern "real"<BR>encyclopedias have refs on every article too, in very small print<BR>typically.<BR><BR>Lack of refs is just another way for an article to be incomplete.<BR>Adding refs is more complicated than it needs to be however,<BR>and I've been designing a scheme to make it easier by using<BR>a new namespace a la images.<BR><BR>Stan<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing
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