From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca
Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will help in this regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text that it is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the page being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of the referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It is, literally, a dream come true.
<hip></hip><hooray/>!
I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.