Talk:Linguistic development of Genie

Footnotes

Blade, I know that the Genie subject has profoundly affected you but I'm a little wary about the footnotes. There seems to be a lot of unsourced opinion in the things - even footnotes should usually be sourced. I'm not saying that they are your opinion, just that we do not know whose opinion it is. You might also want to consider {{efn}}, which standardised the various fudges such as #tag:ref and probably would ease maintenance. - Sitush (talk) 00:01, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm trying to cut those down; I got a little carried away, as is my wont. Believe me, it looked a lot worse before I started really hacking away a few days ago. If you see anything specific you can remove it yourself. All of the footnotes are sourced, but for the ones which use the same sources as the preceding text I didn't duplicate the references. In a couple places, I've tweaked the text to show that it's the scientists (predominantly Curtiss) and not me talking. When I get some more time I'll experiment with the formatting, anything to cut down the amount of markup is an improvement. The emotional piece of it is pretty much gone at this point, I'm more interested now in just getting it to be the best article possible. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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Length concern

I think this article may be too long and may have to be split some time in the future. The character count of all the paragraphs, except references, is about 100,000 bytes. According to Wikipedia:Article size#Size guideline, a page of this size should almost certainly be divided. 100.12.186.112 (talk) 23:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

I'd happily do that, if there was an obvious way to do so; would definitely welcome any input and bold action. Also, I'm trying to figure out what the readable prose is; I don't know if what you used is also counting the html markup, of which there is a lot; that might be throwing it off. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:13, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Update; I did manage to get this tool working, and it's about 97 KB of text (or 15K words). Long, if not unprecedented; any ideas for splitting would be helpful, but it's not urgent. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:19, 15 October 2019 (UTC)