[WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Ian Woollard]

Good.

Do it then.

On 2 November 2011 22:42, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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-Ian Woollard