On 7/18/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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"
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geni