[WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Ray Saintonge]

On 11/02/11 3:38 PM, Ian Woollard 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.

Inline references are a problem even for newbies wanting to make a 
simple correction.  In a reference rich article the error may be easily 
visible in article space, but becomes difficult to find in edit space 
when one needs to wade through a lot of references.

Ray