Hey comrades,

We need your help for a quick focus group test to shape a new policy we’ve rolled out.

We’re chasing out sourceless edits (see here for info), and we have a question on how much we should reuse a given reference now. It’s now become a discussion and I figure it’s better to see what the readers prefer to base our policy on.

Please look at these two edits of the same page, the “Post-Premiership” section specifically.

Please take the time to read through the section in version 1 first (it’s just one paragraph), and only afterwards open version 2.

Version 1: https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Boris_Johnson&oldid=61998

Version 2: https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Boris_Johnson&oldid=62000

If you can’t see a difference, please also tell me (everything you have to say is valuable feedback). But the difference is that in version 1, reference 4 is only used at the end of the entire paragraph to source all the claims in the paragraph, whereas in version 2, every claim has been linked to the admittedly same reference (number 4).

As a reader, which method do you prefer and why?

Also please note that every time we reuse a reference, it shows like this in the References list:

Does this bother you, did you notice it before I brought it up?

Again, add as much as you want in your answer. It will help us decide how to source in the future.

edit: please make a comment and don’t just upvote by the way if you agree with someone! The more feedback we have the more we can refine our policy too, everything is good to hear. Thanks!