[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 6, Issue 109

Sun Jan 25 15:20:34 UTC 2004

> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:36:45 -0500
> From: Sascha Noyes <sascha at pantropy.net>
> Or my personal favourite:
>
> <sup>[[Articlename#References|<nowiki>[</nowiki>1<nowiki>]</ 
> nowiki>]]</sup>

Quibble 1: How do you keep the numerals in sequence
if you are editing it and need to insert another citation?

Quibble 2: Less important because less likely, but
how do you keep the link from breaking
if the name of the References section is changed?

Quibble 3: There are probably those who find even
a superscript footnote or endnote too intrusive when
casually reading the article, so ideally there would be
some kind of "show/hide references" mechanism.

Quibble 4: For those who WANT to see the reference,
when you click on the reference you lose your place in
the text you were reading.

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