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Section Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once describe the case where there are multiple identical citations of the same source. It does not, however, describe, e.g., the use of {{ rp}} to cite different locations within the same source, quoting different passages within the same source. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 11:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
|ps=
doesn't provide the functionality of |quote=
, and repurposing |loc=
to provide a quote is kludgy at best.This guide doesn't specify whether to put a period at the end of a footnote that isn't a complete sentence. It contains some examples that do and some that don't. Something should be said about this – either that a period should or shouldn't be placed, or that this should be handled consistently within a footnote section, or that it's up to the author of the individual footnote. Joriki ( talk) 12:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
|group=
and have them listed separately, or you can just mix them in with all the other references. You could even then call the article section that contains all of those explanatory notes and references "Footnotes". All of that would be acceptable by Wikipedia's standards. Trying to set one hard rule would run foul of
WP:CITEVAR. -- LCU
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Based on the discussion above, I removed a period in Footnotes: groups to make the example consistent. I'd suggest adding something like this: "The style of footnotes (e.g. whether footnotes that aren't complete sentences end in a period) should be consistent within an article but may vary across articles. See also WP:CITEVAR." But I don't see a good place for this – the only place that currently has this level of detail is Formatting ref tags, but this is about all footnotes, not just ref tags. Joriki ( talk) 10:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, this page says "Note that when you use the visual editor, you will not be able to add, remove, or change list-defined references.
" but it seems that they now work? Was this fixed recently? They still do not work with
Template:reflist.
Rjjiii(
talk) 00:38, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
we already have a special-case support for templates that generate a reflist. Since we already treat it like a "real" references list, any new features should work here as well. [...] However, supporting references defined using {{reflist|refs= ... }} would require rich editing of templates."
Note that when you use the visual editor...line a few years back. Do you consider the issue resolved now?
{{reflist|refs= ... }}". Rjjiii ( talk) 02:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Today I learned that "names must not be totally numeric" – isn't this out of date now that we have visual editor which automatically assigns numeric names? Perhaps that point could be reworded to make an exception fo #visualeditors? Cielquiparle ( talk) 04:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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Section Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once describe the case where there are multiple identical citations of the same source. It does not, however, describe, e.g., the use of {{ rp}} to cite different locations within the same source, quoting different passages within the same source. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 11:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
|ps=
doesn't provide the functionality of |quote=
, and repurposing |loc=
to provide a quote is kludgy at best.This guide doesn't specify whether to put a period at the end of a footnote that isn't a complete sentence. It contains some examples that do and some that don't. Something should be said about this – either that a period should or shouldn't be placed, or that this should be handled consistently within a footnote section, or that it's up to the author of the individual footnote. Joriki ( talk) 12:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
|group=
and have them listed separately, or you can just mix them in with all the other references. You could even then call the article section that contains all of those explanatory notes and references "Footnotes". All of that would be acceptable by Wikipedia's standards. Trying to set one hard rule would run foul of
WP:CITEVAR. -- LCU
ActivelyDisinterested ∆
transmissions∆ °
co-ords° 11:23, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
Based on the discussion above, I removed a period in Footnotes: groups to make the example consistent. I'd suggest adding something like this: "The style of footnotes (e.g. whether footnotes that aren't complete sentences end in a period) should be consistent within an article but may vary across articles. See also WP:CITEVAR." But I don't see a good place for this – the only place that currently has this level of detail is Formatting ref tags, but this is about all footnotes, not just ref tags. Joriki ( talk) 10:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, this page says "Note that when you use the visual editor, you will not be able to add, remove, or change list-defined references.
" but it seems that they now work? Was this fixed recently? They still do not work with
Template:reflist.
Rjjiii(
talk) 00:38, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
we already have a special-case support for templates that generate a reflist. Since we already treat it like a "real" references list, any new features should work here as well. [...] However, supporting references defined using {{reflist|refs= ... }} would require rich editing of templates."
Note that when you use the visual editor...line a few years back. Do you consider the issue resolved now?
{{reflist|refs= ... }}". Rjjiii ( talk) 02:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Today I learned that "names must not be totally numeric" – isn't this out of date now that we have visual editor which automatically assigns numeric names? Perhaps that point could be reworded to make an exception fo #visualeditors? Cielquiparle ( talk) 04:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)