[Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links

[Akash Mehta]

If everyone labelled it 'too lazy to do it properly,' [[WP:WSS]]
members would be out of a job :)

On 9/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/09/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > However, neither really actively encourages the improvement
> > of referencing in en:wp articles, using the <reference> system, cite
> > templates, both, or any other relevant system.
>
>
> The <reference> system is simple enough *conceptually* as well as
> syntactically to be highly usable. It lets you write your citation
> down in the exact place a claim is made, then formats everything
> nicely.
>
> The cite templates are byzantine. I'm not going to figure them all out
> any more than I'm going to learn every variety of stub template - I
> know a few, but often I'll just put {{stub}} and let someone who wants
> to pick the precisely correct one. I hope this comes across more as
> "division of labour" than "too lazy to do it properly" ;-)
>
>
> - d.
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