[WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Alan Liefting]

On 3/11/2011 10:45 p.m., Ray Saintonge wrote:
> 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.
>
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Alan