User talk:Mike Christie/The citation habit

Dead right, I think. It's very valuable and changed the way I read other sites and books too. TheGrappler (talk) 00:21, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Nice to hear from people who read the essay; glad you liked it. Mike Christie (talk) 01:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

I like this essay too. Facebook has also apparently changed me, since I instinctively looked for the "Like" button after reading this! —Kevin Myers 10:59, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Now you have me thinking. What would a merger of Wikipedia and Facebook look like?! Mike Christie (talk) 13:54, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

(much later) Very good, yes. I suspect that new editors imagine a Wikipedia article to consist of text (and images) with possibly a few rather irrelevant footnote-citation thingies dotted about. I fancy that we imagine a Wikipedia article to be a network of references and wikilinks, with a few small snippets of text that declare what that network consists of... Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:22, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Maybe not just snippets, but I know what you mean. At least, that's the idealized Wikipedia article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:54, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Member of congress citations

This is neat. I was thinking about writing an essay on what I'd call "Member of Congress citations" where we note in text that "A professor from (prestigious U) did a study on (thing)", as this was one of the first things which Wikipedia changed my thinking on--every time I heard some congresscritter say "A professor from harvard did a study" I'd think "Who? What year? How on earth would I find this study if I wanted to check your facts". It's frustrating to see that style come up on wikipedia as well, hence the planned essay. Protonk (talk) 16:29, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Yep, that's pretty much what happened to me. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:38, 14 October 2014 (UTC)