User talk:Alterego
Hi - I saw your footnote proposal, and I'm guessing that making sure that people cite their sources is important to you. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) at my proposal, "Remind people to cite sources while editing", and if you like it, please put in a good word for it. Thanks! -- Dwheeler 03:02, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)
About footnote style proposal
Dear alterego, I'd be really interested to know your summary of what's different about your proposed footnote and biblgiography style suggestions from the current ones at wikipedia. That would help me assess the change better. I can see the title of References is changed to Bibliography and that you use simple superscript numbers instead of "Note 1" in front of the footnote citation. Are there other style changes from the one wikipedia currently shows in its faq on the topic? If you like, you could respond either here or in my talk page. I wonder why wikipedia chose to put Note 1, Note 2, etc. in front of the footnotes -- I may ask about that in the talk discussion at the citation style page. Then I guess I need to figure out at what point I should consider your proposal a new official change to the wikipedia style and copy edit accordingly. I suppose I would just wait for the official style page to reflect your style, if this actually comes to pass. (Incidentally, after you and I have completed our discussion I usually take the hypertext link out of my username posted here, so I just don't want to startle you when I go back and do that, thanks.) Emerman 16:34, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Footnotes / references
Hi I just made one of my rare visitors to the village pump and noticed that you are interested in references - in particular the template book reference I created. I always hoped that would lead on to greater things - though as I think you noted there has always been limitations (particularly the non-optionality of template parameters - such as templates for uniformizing other references and using footnotes appropriately. So if there is any major shift to work on this, I would be pleased to be involved. Pcb21| Pete 00:30, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)