Board Thread:The Time Lord Academy/@comment-24451551-20150803183720/@comment-26975268-20150810114400

"as we would never place a punctuation mark such as a comma or a semicolon before a citation in mid-sentence." Actually, that's pretty standard right now as well. I can't speak for whether or not it's "proper" — and we literally have a protocol saying all full stories should be italicised regardless of actual grammatical rules because it was decided in the forums, so it doesn't seem like we're too bothered about what's proper — but I must say, from an organisational perspective, on this wiki, the current formatting does make sense.

I say this because the paranthetical citation is not just for the sentence before it in most cases. Citations are stories here, so it would make complete sense to have a full article on a place, object or character, and to have to cite the whole thing with one source at the end. Having a citation follow all punctuation, at least to me, is saying "all that came between the last citation/start of page and the end of this previous sentence/part of sentence falls under this citation.

I can't know if any of the above was considered when the initial decision was made, as I don't know all the history, but, in my opinion, it works quite well as is, and effectively demonstrates exactly what we want the citations to represent.