Template:Refn
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Purpose
This template is used to create footnotes in Wikipedia, as an alternative and complement to the <ref> tag. Because of a technical limitation, some of the standard Wikipedia markup elements that are often used in the article prose do not work within a set of <ref>...</ref> tags, including but not limited to the pipe trick, template substitution and another "nested" set of <ref>...</ref> tags. For example, the following does not work as expected:
-
<ref>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</ref>(Generates: [[Help:Footnotes|]] instead of a wikilink) -
<ref>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</ref>(Generates: {{SUBST:TODAY}} instead of the date that the edit was made) -
<ref>Explanatory footnote<ref>Citation</ref></ref>(Generates: Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). </ref>)
Replacing the outermost <ref>...</ref> set with Template:Tlp allows for the use of the markup elements listed above.
Usage
- groupname: Groupname per WP:REFGROUP; if not specified, then the main and nested references will be rendered into the same reference list
- name: Reference name per WP:REFNAME
Examples
Footnotes with citations
Substitution
The first example shows that substitution does not work in a regular <ref>...</ref> tag (the accessdate does not appear correctly). The second example shows that the accessdate is substituted correctly within {{refn}}.
Errors
If the reference or note content is missing, then "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content." will be displayed.
See also
{{#lst:Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references|rlt}}
Template:Wikipedia referencing
TemplateData
See the monthly error report for this template.
TemplateData for Refn
<templatedata>
{
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "content",
"description": "The content of the footnote.",
"type": "content",
"required": true,
"suggested": true
},
"name": {
"description": "The name of the footnote. Corresponds to the \"name\" attribute of the Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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