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Too many inline citations are cluttering the intro
It's great to have enough refs that are valuable, relevant refs, but the citation clutter in the introduction gets in the way of reading the intro, which should be a summary of the entire article that encourages readers to read more. As to a practical to-do list, I'd say work from the references backward:
 * 1) See if there are any duplicate citations that aren't named yet, and then merge them. This might shorten the list of refs, and save you a lot of work. If you give the citations the same format as you go along, duplicates are easier to find, but before doing that manually, use Tools > Expand sidebar from the WP sidebar or the Citations button in the edit page of the article.
 * 2) Move any of the remaining citations to the part of the body text that covers the same info. Try not to clump them together.
 * 3) Most importantly—but needing the most effort—verify the sources, making sure they are not inappropriate for the topic or misinterpreted and fail verification for the info they claim to support. Thin them out on their merits.

This way, you'll resolve more and more of the clutter problem as you go along. For further information, I found the following helpful:, Citation overkill, and. Sorry all I can do share what I was planning on doing, but my real-life limitations are getting in the way of doing anything more. Thanks in advance to anyone who can work on this! —Geekdiva (talk) 05:36, 27 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Trimmed to a more normal number. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:45, 15 December 2019 (UTC)