[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Fri Dec 23 01:54:12 UTC 2005

Mark Gallagher wrote:

> [[Lang Hancock]], which I bring up whenever I need to refer to a good
> article I've written (since, alas, it's the only really good one I can
> claim!), has References, External links, Further reading, and See also.
> I listed all my sources as footnotes in "References", and now there's
> far too many footnotes; especially when I cite some sources more than
> once.  I've been considering renaming "References" to "Footnotes" and
> using it only for extraordinary claims, and moving everything else to a
> sources section ("References").  Then there'll be Footnotes, References,
> See also, Further reading, and External links.

I dunno. Have a look at some Featured Articles - to get through FAC
these days, you need the metric shitload of references. A lot of people
seem to put them <small>, which helps the less-interested eye gloss over
them reading the article.

- d.