Thread:Undoniel/@comment-4651179-20170502001037/@comment-3406131-20170502232559

ADour wrote: I personally haven't seen this situation happening, and I don't think it's very probable. Most of the time, people that add new sentences in the middle of a section are familiar with the text being edited, and know how do references work. Wish it was true, but from what I've seen, there enough of people who do it the way I'm talking about.

ADour wrote: More often than the situation you described, I've seen users adding in between the sentences of a single paragraph. A situation which isn't covered by that preventive measure. What I mean is that this preventive measure to be actually infallible and more often useful than annoying, every single sentence of a given referenced section should have a redundant citation, but that'd only make it even more annoying. That happens indeed a lot as well, that's basically an extension of my example with the same problem. You go from a point 1 to a point 2 on an issue (with or without paragraph break), with one reference at the end of the point 2. At some point, someone insert another sentence before point 2. No matter there is a paragraph break or not. Having those paragraphs-end-references doesn't solve much of the problem, but it limits the damages (to earlier references).

Adding the citations to the paragraph break is a more convenient than to each sentence. If having a reference for each sentence was in any way possible (convenience, esthetics, usefullness), that wouldn't be a bad idea, but it isn't sadly.

To be honest, the excess of references is mainly due to bad paragraphs structuring. On pages where it can be really annoying, Menelaus (Earth-616), Humans, Inhuman History, and especially Achilles (Earth-616) (I've already culled the number as I wrote this message) (my doing each time), it's both mostly due to the fact the material is splitted (and so each time, a new referenced is needed).