[Wikipedia-l] Any suggestions for editing refs?

[Andrew Gray]

On 05/10/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to be the good wikipedian and adding lots of on-topic refs, but I
> find editing them to be extremely difficult and error prone. IMHO the actual
> "body" of the ref should definitely not be placed in the article body, where
> it is now, as this makes reading the source difficult, to say the least.
> Click edit on Zune some time...
>
> Is there some alternate format? Can I use the <ref name=gizifa/> and then
> place the actual contents later in the article, like in the actual reference
> section? All of my attempts to date have failed.

cite.php currently requires you to have the first <ref
name="whatever"> tag contain the reference data, which can also pose a
problem if you're moving sections of an article around and  you
suddenly find all your references break. It might be worth filing a
bug request addressing this, which would go some way towards
alleviating your problem...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk