Steve Block wrote:
God yes. I remember when I worked on the Tintin article, I had a whole paragraph which was all sourced from the one source, so I cited that source at the end of the paragraph, and someone came along and stuck a cite template halfway in the middle of the paragraph. I think the best thing is to use the unreferenced tag and copy the sentences that one is questioning to the talk page, where someone can dig a source out and work out the best way to cite it. I'm finding I'm writing some awful articles in the sense of referencing tags at the minute. I rescued Kieth Chapman from csd recently, and find I reference the same source 6 times in the one article. It just feels like overkill, but I can't really work out how to best cite.
One thing I continued from college is rampant overciting, to the point where you have articles like [[Kroger Babb]] where the <ref> tags are used with the same book 20 times, and it's either make the reference section 100 lines long of have a half-a-page-width of letters referring to each use of the book.
I will say, though, I had the same problem with the whole paragraph issue (my general training was to worry about new referencing when you came to a new statement), but the only way to solve this in any particular way would be to mandate a certain type of referencing, something I'm extremely opposed to at this point.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't, I suppose.
-Jeff