On 6/18/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The main argument against was readibility, not OR.
So it's not really the number of references as the number of times those references are referenced. Perhaps you should introduce a policy of putting all citations at the end of the paragraph if there are more than 3 or something. Having lots of inline references can harm readability, it's true, but the solution is not to remove the refs, it's to change how they are referenced.
Problem is that you have trigger-happy {{fact}} fanboys who love to tag any sentence which they think is unreferenced - sometimes without even reading the online source (if there is one). I generally avoid doing this for this reason, even though stylistically I would prefer it.
Johnleemk