On 30 Sep 2006, at 03:09, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
Wikipedia has a unique _requirement_ for very dense references, _denser_ than those found in research papers or nonfiction books, so it is not surprising that traditional solutions are not perfect for Wikipedia, and that we will need to think of better approaches.
We also have more solutions at our disposal.
May preference is to use colour. There are many possible ways to do this, but one way would be for sentences to start out light grey, and each independent editor who approves or disapproves turns it darker and either more blue or more red. So dark blue would be strongly supported, dark red would be strongly opposed, and light grey would be not supported or opposed.
Then uncited claims which were "obviously" true would soon gain credibility, but contentious claims would also be obvious.
As has been mentioned, a simple viewing option could turn everything back to normal.