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Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Alphax <alphasigmax(a)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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