On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, <wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On 04/10/2010 19:43, geni wrote:
The Wikipedia that went from nothing to top ten site was never built
on verifiable knowledge. It was built on what people happened to have
in their heads. The whole citation thing outside the more
controversial areas came later. Don't believe me? This was a featured
article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_James_Bulger&oldid=…
Have you looked at the current version of that page? Every sentence has
at least one ref, it looks like a spider has fallen into an ink well and
then run backwards and forwards across the page. Typographically the
result is a mess and almost unreadable with great gaps between one word
and the next. I'd be amazed if there weren't less than a dozen sources
that cover the entire sorry affair and each paragraph covered by 1
reference. 100 different references smacks of OCD.
Inline references can be very distracting when reading. Here is a quick fix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Vandenberg/vector.css
The IE workaround "filter: alpha(opacity=50);" isn't working for me.
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John Vandenberg