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Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Writing an article which uses technical terms or jargon, afraid that the average reader won't know what it is, but don't want to explain it right there and then? Insert square brackets here :)
Having too many parenthetical asides does upset the flow of an article. So in those cases, all the quick explanatory comments should either go in ==Terminology== section at the start of the article, or less ideally, in a numbered ==Notes== section at the end of it.
I briefly considered writing a long rant about how paper encyclopedias do this (eg. ".. in 1234 Foo invaded Bah (see FOOISH INVASION OF BAH)..." ) :) Yes, the other way it is done on paper (and in academic papers) is with numbered footnotes. Although perhaps where context is important to the meaning in an article, footnotes would be appropriate.
See the ==Umlauts and diaereses== section at [[Heavy metal umlaut]] for an example of the former. I have yet to see a good example of the later.
The footnote templates are working on it :)
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