[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax

[Andrew Gray]

On 13/12/2007, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:

> Started doing it that way here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
>
> There are 48 references, so far.  I will use the short format like this,
> when the reference is cited repeatedly in the article.  If it cited just
> once, then I will write out the full reference inside the tag.  Or put the
> web citation in the tag.  Not ideal but it works.  I'm certainly open to
> trying other methods of handling references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scots is a similar example -
things cited multiple times are just "Paterson", things cited once are
full refs.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk