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Mistake?

"Brigham Young was mistaken when he later testified, under oath, that the meeting took place "some two of three months after the massacre".[18]" The use of the word mistaken seems to take some liberty with the source, providing a reason for testimony that does not match the facts. WookMuff (talk) 01:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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citation style

At the creation of this article, Editor COGDEN included references that are more-or-less substs of cs1|2 templates. As part of that edit COGDEN left a note pointing to Mountain Meadows massacre/References as the source for those references. That page was subsequently moved to Talk:Mountain Meadows massacre/References since deleted.

That note-to-users suggests that this peculiar citation style was adopted because of performance issues related to the very large number of templates included in this page. At the time the article was created, there were 22 citations – hardly a lot. In the time since these citations were added, a lot has been done to enhance template handling. Neither the 22 original citations nor the 94 templates in Talk:Mountain Meadows massacre/References are nowadays considered to be a very large number of templates.

I propose to replace the list defined references in §References with standard cs1|2 templates from Talk:Mountain Meadows massacre/References if possible. Are there any here who would object?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:41, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]