Having various reference techniques is very useful for people writing articles, who can choose whatever they feel comfortable with; having multiple simultaneous techniques is not quite as helpful for people trying to make small edits and fixes in articles, or adding references, because you need to be familiar with every individual one of them you might encounter. Personally, for example, I never use the cite templates if I'm adding refs to an unreferenced article, but i need to know them in case I work on an article already using them. And similarly with every possibility. I would rather have to learn any one thing, whether or not I dislike it, than need to learn them all. I recognize of course that this tends to inhibit experiment and improvement.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/18/09, Apoc 2400 apoc2400@gmail.com wrote:
If I may push my most radical suggestion, I want i.e. <<Smith2006>> to be a shortcut for <ref name="Smith2006" /> allowing for very short references in text.
Interesting idea. May be worthwhile.
FT2
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