On 17/09/2007, Michael Daly <michaeldaly(a)kayakwiki.org> wrote:
The only thing I would like is to have in addition is
a central pool of
references. I have put together several pages recently, all on related
topics and all using some common refs. However, I have to put them into
each article separately. Since I copied and pasted from one page to the
next, when I found an error in the original ref, I had to find all the
others to correct.
If refs had a status comparable to images, they could be inserted in any
article with minimal effort. One could have a "where used" function -
"show all articles that reference this author" etc. I realize this is
not a trivial effort, but I like to dream.
If someone can write code for this, English Wikipedia would dive upon
it with great glee.
I mean, I love the <ref> and {{cite}} tags. They're just the right
thing for showing your working when you're trying to write a halfway
robust referenced article.
- d.