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 ::de gustibus non est disputandum. Fine, so it's your personal preference to have references hard to read, but not ""wasting screen space"" (WP:NOTPAPER??). OK, so on articles you create or heavily edit, you can do that, and see if anyone objects. What you can not do is roam around adding it where you feel like it and claim it's OK per BRD. Either start hearing that, or hear a lot more about it.   "