[WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[David Gerard]

On 2 November 2011 22:38, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm thinking that the problem here is inline references. An inline
> reference is one where you plonk the reference in the middle of the text
> <ref>lots of stuff</ref>. The problem with those is that they break up the
> flow of the text, making it very hard to maintain.


Yep.


> Perhaps the Wikipedia should have a bot to convert ALL inline references
> into "list defined references":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LDR#List-defined_references


I believe there was en:wp community resistance to this idea.


- d.