Having various reference techniques is very useful for people writing articles, who can choose whatever they feel comfortable with; having multiple simultaneous techniques is not quite as helpful for people trying to make small edits and fixes in articles, or adding references, because you need to be familiar with every individual one of them you might encounter. Personally, for example, I never use the cite templates if I'm adding refs to an unreferenced article, but i need to know them in case I work on an article already using them. And similarly with every possibility. I would rather have to learn any one thing, whether or not I dislike it, than need to learn them all. I recognize of course that this tends to inhibit experiment and improvement.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/18/09, Apoc 2400 <[email protected]> wrote: >> If I may push my most radical suggestion, I want i.e. <<Smith2006>> to be a >> shortcut for <ref name="Smith2006" /> allowing for very short references in >> text. > > Interesting idea. May be worthwhile. > > FT2 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
