Forum:References Categorization

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Increasingly, and especially with episodes and films where we can see new details obscured by the lower resolution, the reference blocks have become unwieldy and cumbersome. Some of them have literally fell into the hole known as the TL; DR chasm. I looked at the Memory Beta website, where I noticed that they categorized the references. I suggest that we do this here, with the reference block being divided into sections. These sections would have as their headings category names. Like, 101 California Street would fall under "Earth landmarks". When an article has more than one category, I suggest that we go with the category that most closely identifies the term.Throwback (talk) 23:34, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to see an example before discussing this, because I'm not sure how that really works out with many "headings" each having just a few entries. Can you copy an especially "unwieldy" reference block from an episode article to this page and then edit it as suggested? --Cid Highwind (talk) 23:39, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

For those entries that have a small number, I would think that those entries would fall under the heading of "Other". The question is, what is that small number? Is it three, ten, or some other number?Throwback (talk) 23:42, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Well... Give an example, and we'll see if it works. --Cid Highwind (talk) 23:49, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to see the references section actually include all references from the episode or film first before trying to categorize things. -- sulfur (talk) 23:54, October 4, 2013 (UTC)