[WikiEN-l] A busy article!

[Matt Brown]

On 8/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > footnotes could be cleaned up and merged together, though - there's no
> > reason to cite a dozen news stories saying the same thing...
>
> Yes and no. If they're all AAP or Reuters-derived, then no. Other
> times I like to provide links to *every single* source, if there
> aren't ridiculously many of them.

Agreed - while wholly redundant stories from a single ultimate source
are unnecessary, quoting more than one news source shows that the
facts and opinions shown are not the solitary view of one news source
...

-Matt