On 1/25/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
- The referencing system is non-intuitive, and a first-time editor
can't use it. I still don't know how the fuck to use it, and have always found it to have a terrible interface from a reader's standpoint as well. And for good measure, I just read [[WP:CITE]], which is a godawful instruction manual.
This is mainly caused by our unwillingness to totally and utterly abandon every superseded citation/reference system.
All you need to know is:
-- Here is my fact.<ref>Here is my source<ref>
==References== <references /> --
Really. Just memorise that.
- A casual editor who comes upon a mistake or a redlink is going to
fix it from their personal knowledge, not references. This is a larger problem I've observed before - our demand for references fundamentally runs counter to the idea of "you can edit this page right now" in practice. We have to get realistic about references before we can get serious about them.
Yay. Someone agrees that we have to get realistic.
Steve