[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 15:45:20 UTC 2008


> I cannot see anything positive in that refname system. It is
> complicated to the user and invites people to indicate less thoroughly
> were the information comes from (dropping page numbers, because it's
> the same book). There is absolutely no problem to copy the full
> reference information into the ref, making it independent from other
> refs and from "Literature".

The problem is that it results in the source of the article being a
complicated mess than new users don't stand a chance of understanding.



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