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Traffic driver. Pop culture bunk. But causing much hysteria. Wrote fresh with references.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 16:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Traffic driver. Pop culture bunk. But causing much hysteria. Wrote fresh with references.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 16:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
:Just for readability, one citation per sentence is enough in the vast majority of cases. In like manner, if you keep repeating the same citation every few sentences, it tends to cause formatting problems in the footnotes -- they don't work well, especially in 2- or 3-column format, with long lists of the same note. Usually, if there are two citations in a row, the second citation, if relevant, has a different point or perspective to be brought into the article. Otherwise, it feels like WP defensiveness.
:This is meant as constructive advice about style here. Thanks for writing the article. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 18:34, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
==A perspective==
I was the external network architecture consultant for the U.S government [[Y2K]] information center, and saw things that were avoided by the effort -- and two scary incidents caused by noncompliant software. To put this in perspective, someone had made up a sign that got onto the wall of many offices:<blockquote>The [[Dark Ages]] were caused by the Y1K problem</ref>
[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 18:34, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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 Definition:  The year that Mayan calendars predicted to be the end of the world. Has become a meme associated with apocalyptic events fueled by booksellers, fearmongers and moviemakers. [d] [e]
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Traffic driver. Pop culture bunk. But causing much hysteria. Wrote fresh with references.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 16:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Just for readability, one citation per sentence is enough in the vast majority of cases. In like manner, if you keep repeating the same citation every few sentences, it tends to cause formatting problems in the footnotes -- they don't work well, especially in 2- or 3-column format, with long lists of the same note. Usually, if there are two citations in a row, the second citation, if relevant, has a different point or perspective to be brought into the article. Otherwise, it feels like WP defensiveness.
This is meant as constructive advice about style here. Thanks for writing the article. Howard C. Berkowitz 18:34, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

A perspective

I was the external network architecture consultant for the U.S government Y2K information center, and saw things that were avoided by the effort -- and two scary incidents caused by noncompliant software. To put this in perspective, someone had made up a sign that got onto the wall of many offices:

The Dark Ages were caused by the Y1K problem</ref>

Howard C. Berkowitz 18:34, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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