I would support this, I think it's better to have non-MOS compliant articles with footnote marks that actually lead to the footnotes then "faulty" articles. Experienced users, and indeed bots, could than see to MOS-compliance. Later, a possibly an enhanced version of this feature could work like the pywikpedia bot for the same task:having a list of sections where the references tag could be added, and if there is one found, than the tag is placed inside it, if not, the references are placed in a new section entitled "References" [or whatever is the first on the list of prioritized names]. (It could be further enhanced by defining what sections should always be after the references [e.g. "External links", "See also"] and then the auto-added section could be placed before them.)
Best regards, Bence Damokos
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it appears to me that it would be significantly more user-friendly to append a <references/> section at the bottom of the text that is being parsed when it is missing.
This would
- make it easier for new users to discover referencing functionality
(oldbies could still properly reformat the tag);
- solve the "references missing in section preview" problem.
Is there any obvious reason not to do this?
The only reason that occurs to me is that it will make <references /> less discoverable. On the other hand, people would likely figure it out if they'll figure out <ref>, and if not, the worst that happens is that references are way at the bottom.
I don't see any reason not to do this.
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