Wikipedia talk:Ref reform

Patch

I have submitted a patch to Avar (the original author of the Cite extension) that addresses several of the objections being raised here.

The two main features of note:

1. Creation of a <refdefine> tag that defines a reference in the same way that <ref> does, but may be placed anywhere in a document and outputs nothing.
2. The ability of <ref name="foo"/> references to work even if the associated content is defined later in the page.

Dragons flight 20:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Specificity

I think there also needs to be a way to make it clear which facts a reference is supposed to support. The entire preceding paragraph? The entire sentence? Just the last claim? One figure in that claim? We had decided, I think, to add this info to the body of the footnote, as people tend to add material to the article text willy-nilly. How will this translate into the new system? How does that work with many-to-one references? -- Beland 00:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)