On 25/03/2008, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't intending to place my *full* personal rules for referencing above, but one of them is that if the reference no longer is required it can be removed. It could have been wholly replaced with a better reference; the content it supported could have been removed; or it could indeed have always been useless.
Mmm. It's also occasionally worth seeing if references can be replaced with another existing one - especially with articles heavily cited from news stories, there's usually a lot of duplication, and it's good to trim the proliferation.