[WikiEN-l] In praise of <ref></ref><references/>

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>

> Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will help in this
> regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text  
> that it
> is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the  
> page
> being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have
> "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of  
> the
> referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to
> accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was
> unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)

Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It  
is, literally, a dream come true.

<hip></hip><hooray/>!

I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for  
a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.