duplicative footnotes while i definitely strongly oppose some experimental and fragile technical fix i think the regular work of editing is very relevant in particular without having carefully reviewed it myself i strongly suspect that we have a large number of mostly redundant references a source we use in one section might be perfectly adequate to support a fact we state in a different section as often as that is the case we can remove one of the references and just refer to it in both places this takes some real editorial work but i would not be at all surprised if such work could eliminate or even of the references as redundant while still keeping the article well compliant with wp rs and wp cite this cleanup can of course be done incrementally by as many editors who want to help talk