On 7/19/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
As for a bio-article boiled out of 4-5 online obituaries I don't think listing those as references will be terribly useful. Typically half of them will be inaccessible after a couple of months. It doesn't hurt to mention them, though, perhaps on the talk page if you feel they won't be useful to the reader on the article page.
If half of them will be inaccessible after a couple of months, then I think that is even more reason to include all of them as references. Otherwise, you run the risk of choosing the "wrong" references and having none to refer to later. Until and if Wikipedia ever adds a "references page" for each article, I believe references are "article page" items, not "talk page" items. (Although as I previously mentioned, I'd rather have them below the categories rather than above.)