[Wikipedia-l] Any suggestions for editing refs?

Sat Oct 7 05:10:18 UTC 2006

--- 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.
> 
> If not, is there some sort of editor that makes this easier?

Here is what I do: Under ==References== I have two subsections, ===Works cited=== and ===Notes===.
===Works cited=== has the full reference info in standard reference order while ===Notes=== has
<references/>. Then inline, I have stuff like <ref>Smith, John, p. 249</ref>. However, this does
not work well for articles that use more than a dozen or so separate sources. 

-- mav

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