It is not only the references that could benefit from being moved away from the start of the article. The first thing a user sees in the edit field is usually an infobox. These too can get quite big and don't obviously enough correspond to the article itself. How obvious is it anyway that the content of the second column is defined ahead of the first?
A possibility to move the definition of the infobox out of the way would present a reasonably recognisable text to the user. I believe both new and old users would benefit.
Hans A. Rosbach (Haros)
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:41 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
If a reference is used more than once, it's not all in one place anyway. It actually solves the issue of someone accidentally deleting the text for the ref not realising it is used elsewhere. For refs only used once, it makes maintenance of the ref a little harder, but maintenance of the rest of the article much easier.
There are areas where articles are likely to rack up a lot of single use refs. But such a system already exists. Doesn't help a huge amount. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Bolton_and_Bury_Canal#Work_begins
-- geni
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