[WikiEN-l] [[Geographic_references]]

[Bkonrad]

Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 7/2/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, I've reverted. There's a direct link to [[Geographic
>> references]] from every Rambot-generated article, things like:
>>
>>   As of the [[census]][[Geographic references#2|<sup>2</sup>]]
>>   of 2000, there were 1,101 people...
>>
>> - it's a direct citation of a source. Unless we're going to fix all
>> those links first, we shouldn't be redirecting to an article which
>> isn't the source!
> 
> Uh, we shouldn't be citing Wikipedia for census information :/

It is not a direct citation. It was apparently an attempt in the pre <ref> 
days (probably even predating templatized footnotes) to indicate the 
source for the statistices. IMO, all the GR#2 links should be changed 
to use <ref> tags. A dog lot of work though, but a bot could probably 
help.

Bkonrad