On 02/07/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/2/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@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 :/
We're not. It's just that rather than have the links for the sources on each and every page, we link to a single central page with the details of the sources. ("census daya is sourced from X, place names are taken from these two databases, etc.")
It's a kludge, and it's not how we'd do it now, but the fact is it's there.