I would support this, I think it's better to have non-MOS compliant articles with footnote marks that actually lead to the footnotes then "faulty" articles. Experienced users, and indeed bots, could than see to MOS-compliance. Later, a possibly an enhanced version of this feature could work like the pywikpedia bot for the same task:having a list of sections where the references tag could be added, and if there is one found, than the tag is placed inside it, if not, the references are placed in a new section entitled "References" [or whatever is the first on the list of prioritized names]. (It could be further enhanced by defining what sections should always be after the references [e.g. "External links", "See also"] and then the auto-added section could be placed before them.)
Best regards, Bence Damokos On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it > > appears to me that it would be significantly more user-friendly to > > append a <references/> section at the bottom of the text that is being > > parsed when it is missing. > > > > This would > > * make it easier for new users to discover referencing functionality > > (oldbies could still properly reformat the tag); > > * solve the "references missing in section preview" problem. > > > > Is there any obvious reason not to do this? > > The only reason that occurs to me is that it will make <references /> > less discoverable. On the other hand, people would likely figure it > out if they'll figure out <ref>, and if not, the worst that happens is > that references are way at the bottom. > > I don't see any reason not to do this. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
