Matt Brown wrote:
On 4/10/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
I've already had one editor remove my references in this format, seemingly out of not liking it. Reverted and posted to his talk page and he hasn't done it again, but it was annoying.
I've wound up in "fights" over switching to the new reference formatting twice now. But I remember similar problems back when the automatic image thumbnailing feature was added to Wikimedia, with people who'd spent a lot of effort creating separate thumb-sized versions of images getting bent out of shape when their hard work started getting orphaned and deleted as redundant, and eventually everyone came around to the new way. I suspect this too shall pass.