Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde I plead guilty as charged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bumbry Subject: Wikipedia article on Grace Bumbry BCC: Casey Abell
In response to my edit which placed Sections in the same order I have seen them on many other Wikipedia (WP) pages for Opera Singers and other Musicians,
External Links References
your edit changed them to,
References External Links
You wrote explaining why the order of Sections I have been adding to WP pages is wrong.
At 09:28 AM 11-12-2007 -0800, you wrote:
I was just following the usual practice at Wikipedia by placing the "External links" section at the end of the Grace Bumbry article. As Wikipedia:External links says: "If an article has external links, the standard format is to place them in a bulleted list under a primary heading at the end of the article." If there is a different convention for opera singer articles, I have no problems with the "External links" section being placed somewhere else in the article.
To [WikiEN-l]:
I thought that WP was trying to emulate a real paper encyclopedia. In a real paper non-fiction book, the bibliography is always the last thing before the Index. Why WP calls a bibliography "References" doesn't make sense, but I would accept that, IF it was consistent throughout all WP pages, but it is not. The Section naming inconsistency displayed at, http://www.folklib.net/opera/wikipedia_sections.shtml is unacceptable, at least to me. "usual practice at Wikipedia" ... where exactly is the documentation for the proper naming and order of ALL Sections for Musicians? I will continue to look for the consistent rules that govern how Musician's Sections are to be named and exactly what consistent order they are supposed to be in. I had plans on adding "External Links" and "References" to the WP entry for the 200 Opera Singers listed on my page, http://www.folklib.net/opera/singers.shtml plus in my fifteen years of indexing almost 300 books about musicians, http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog7.shtml (opera) http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog.shtml (general) I also have "Reference" lists for about three thousand others, http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/birth2days.shtml#COPYRIGHT However, as my WP editing is wrong by following consistent paper publishing rules, and there are no consistent Wikipedia rules to match, there is no point in my continuing. ____________________________________________________________ Doug Henkle - mailto:henkle@pobox.com P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447