On 11/6/06, Ori Redler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In WP, and also here, those are very much in vogue, probably as part
of the effort to show >that WP (or CZ) is a credible source of
information. The problem is that footnotes tend to >hinder
readability. I think we need to find a way to make notes less
prominent (although I'm >not sure exactly how).

Footnoting and bibliographies can also be taken *too* far.  I forget
which one, but I recently came across an article on a semi-popular
topic that had *57 footnotes* for a three screen long article.  (Then
the bibliography covered another two screens - all of the cites other
websites, and over half of them 404ed.)

D.
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