On 7/18/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I've fixed that article. Adding footnotes to the same reference on each sentence is just stupid. Just putting the reference at the end is fine. Anyone that tries to claim something is unsourced without actually looking at the reference can just be ignored. If people checking for unsourced statements aren't going to actually look at sources, then they are going to miss statements which cite a source but aren't supported by the source, which is even worse than unsourced statements.
Doesn't work too well with paper sources. It is unreasonable to expect people to spend large amount of time in a libiary before deciding which bits are and which bits are not sourced particularly if the article is expanded in more than one go or I decide to expand the [[Salisbury and Southampton Canal]] article using Edwin Welch's "The Bankrupt Canal"