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142: 666: 111: 271: 805: 490: 235: 605:, I am not sure how it is nonsensical: for an individual, overuse either makes it hard to read, or it does not. If enough editors (who are readers, if not a perfect representation) have said it is hard to read, such that the point should be represented here, I don't understand the purpose of adding a layer of vaguery on top of it. 369:
The hair spaces exist just to make it better parsable (and more in line with normal grammar rules). Semicolons would look syntactically odd for this purpose (that is, for anything but a list of pages or other in-source-locations) unless you would move them out of the superscript - but that would
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I chanced upon ref extends a moment ago. The docs there state that this feature is only available in the beta cluster. But it might be worth mentioning in the documentation here that this is another possible solution, already in the pipe for special users, and perhaps in the pipe for everyone,
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It wasn't about "seen to do" versus "can do" something (and I just switched to the latter wording; I never cared about that). It was nonsensical because "Overuse of this template can make prose harder to read for some users. Used judiciously, however, other editors say that ..." starts with a
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statement of alleged fact (which is really just an opinion), and follows it with a statement of opinion not masquerading as fact, and then pits the "fact" (opinion) of some readers ("to read for some users" = "users who are reading" = "readers") versus the opinion of some
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article we have "... languages and...". It's a little harder to parse the multiple sequential uses in ": 125 : iii ". Would it be possible to introduce separators and perhaps remove the blank spaces, as in ":125;:iii;"? Or something like "(125)(iii)"
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significantly increase the occupied space (and still look odd IMO), and some people would object to it. (In theory, this could be added as another style, but I would not support it, because I think it would look worse.)
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for the content in the destination pages and must not be deleted as long as the copies exist. For attribution and to access older versions of the copied text, please see the history links below.
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effectively obsolete (and I say that as the author of the template). It was very much needed when first invented, but has really been surprassed now. For a crash course on effective use of
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That WMDE link doesn't go to a real page. Provided the correct page, and I'll add it as a see-also. I assume it's some updated version of the
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However, changing to your proposed () style is easy. If you have support for that on the article talk, you will just have to add
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With regard to "Overuse of this template is seen by some editors as making prose harder to read." all u de d to in
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It can be eliminated with the following wording (please note also the deleted comma after "cited"):
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Text has been copied to or from this page; see the list below. The source pages now serve to
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be added? It, once added to visual editor, will have essentially the same function as this.
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I suggest getting rid of the apostrophe in the second numbered sub-paragraph under the
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That was my bad. I forgot template documentation is transcluded. Thanks!
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a few of us obstinate editors insist on using it and nobody can stop us
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Template talk:Reference page/Archive 1#Potential replacement for {{Rp}}
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I would change the text to something more accurate like "many readers
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and simply listing all of the pages cited, would result in ...
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and simply listing all of the pages cited would result in ...
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despise this horrendously ugly and illegible template
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