Talk:Liam Byrne/@comment-16533050-20170222154659/@comment-6716431-20170222155912

According to the Manual of Style, yes. You can't really cut down on the amount of references without removing information. As the reference system is intended to help people find out where that information is from, removing information because there are too many references is not against its whole point. Only five of the references are called upon twice, the rest only once, indicating that most of them contribute a unique piece of information to this page, therefore they belong there.

That said, if you can find a way to cut down on the references without removing information from this page or violating the MoS, I don't think anyone would have even the slightest issue with that.

EDIT: Or, as Pauolo suggested, make certain exceptions in cases like this where pages have a great many references, like putting all of Byrne's Heart quotes under a single link. MoS exceptions of that kind wouldn't face any protest either, I don't believe.