On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I could be wrong here, but wasn't Cite recently
changed to allow for
putting <ref>s inside <references>? If so, I think we could start
encouraging people to put all of their refs down in the <references>
block and just using <ref name="something"/> inline. /That/ would
be a vast improvement, if nothing else.
Good question, it's certainly been raised quite a few times. I was
astonished how much opposition there was, the most recent time.
Ah yes, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources/Archive_26#Result
So, apparently the code has been written but not implemented on en
yet. It will allow this:
Some<ref name="foo" /> text.
...
<references />
<ref name="foo">Moo</ref>
</references>
Steve