Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/MOS

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[edit] References vs external links

I like the references, or footnotes at the bottom of the page. I disagree with the way we've laid out the article format here. --evrik (talk) 13:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? Per Wikipedia:Guide to layout, Footnotes go before External links.
The redirect from merge is listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Article maintenance, as this is not a style guide issue.

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:05, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Guide to layout is a guideline and not a policy. If your read the talk portion of the page you will see that there is disagreement on the point. Also, WP:CITE#Footnotes says,

A footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a document to comment on a part of the main text, or to provide a reference for it, or both. The connection between the relevant text and its footnote is indicated by a number or symbol which appears both after the relevant text and before the footnote.

  1. Place a <ref> ... </ref> where you want a footnote reference number to appear in an article—type the text of the note between the ref tags.
  2. Place the <references/> tag in a "Notes" or "References" section near the end of the article—the list of notes will be generated here.
So, there is no real consensus. If you want to add a line saying that it is optional where the references go, i'm okay with that. --evrik (talk) 15:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Like "The given order of sections is also encouraged but may be varied"? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
  • sure. --evrik (talk) 16:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-national articles

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