On 1/27/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
I think discreet superscripted numbers *would* be annoying if they appeared after each and every statement of fact. And we'd have 500 cites per article.
That said, I'd prefer a dynamic metadata system so that any arbitrary piece of text could be matched to a source, the editor who wrote it, and so forth. But that would be way, way beyond any of the software we have now in complexity, I think.
Such a system already exists. It's called Project Xanadu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu), and it's such an incredibly complicated system that it's taken 38 years for a preliminary implementation to appear.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]