[WikiEN-l] Well-sourced nonsense vs. unsourced competence

[stevertigo]

FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
>> One immediate if minor advantage: old references don't get lost from the
>> text, when their first mention is removed.

Yeah, that's the practical reason for keeping refs with text. Its a
valid argument against separating them.

Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> There's a bot running - or, at least, was recently - that looks for
> unmatched <ref name="whatever"/> comments and digs through the article
> history to find a matching ref. It's pretty neat.

Ah. So, AIUI a bot might be able to do the same thing - but be
modified to remove the bulk of the ref tag to a separate hidden ref
tags section at bottom. All [sic] that would have to be done then is
to separate the 'first' ref tag (the big one) from the tag itself,
leaving the tag inplace.

The only issue then [sic] is that the 'hidden refs section' (where all
the ref text goes) would still show ref numbers [] in view mode. Maybe
just keeping a visible section full of visible ref numbers and hidden
ref text would work - even if people won't like it. Isn't there's a
tag function that can <hide ref numbers> from showing?

-Stevertigo