On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:30:27AM +0200, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
On 21-08-2002, Rosa Williams wrote thusly :
Would it be possible to add a Credits: namespace that, like the Talk: namespace would track a given article? That way we could put credits, links-back, links to any invariant texts, et cetera ad nauseum. We could even put in hardcopy references, which would be useful and keep 'em from
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^cluttering a document. Best of all, it's unobtrusive but easily accessible.
This is a very good point here. I think it will become a neccessity, some time in future, to give references, at least for medical articles.
If those references are important for the article then they should be in the article itself, not in the credits section. An important purpose of the credits sections is to tell us that it is Ok that certain parts of the article were copied from elsewhere. So it shouldn't be cluttered with other references.
-- Jan Hidders