On 21/09/2007, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see how. If someone's implementing groups, they should implement the whole lot. Groups that don't display differently in the article are completely useless.
Not completely. Witness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_systems. In fact, I don't like notes, and think footnotes should probably be reserved for references only, not general-purpose notes. Those cause you to have to jump back and forth constantly if you want to read the whole article properly.
Ok, not completely useless. They have one use, separate notes for each section.
It is easy to overuse footnotes, and then it gets annoying having to jump back and forth, but they do have their uses. Information that most people won't be interested in can go in a footnote where the few people that care can find it and those than don't can ignore it. If it were done as a parenthetical aside, people would have to waste their time reading it and determining that it could be ignored.