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Purpose

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This template is used to create footnotes in Wikipedia, as an alternative and complement to the <ref>. 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:

  1. <ref>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</ref> (Generates: [[Help:Footnotes|]] instead of a wikilink)
  2. <ref>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</ref> (Generates: {{SUBST:TODAY}} instead of the date that the edit was made)
  3. <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 {{Refn|{{{2}}}}} allows for the use of the markup elements listed above.

{{refn|group=groupname|name=name|Contents of the footnote}}

  • 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

Template:Refname rules

Examples

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Footnotes with citations

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Template:Markup

Substitution

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The first example shows that substitution does not work in a regular <ref>...</ref> tag (the |access-date= does not appear correctly). The second example shows that the |access-date= is substituted correctly within {{refn}}.

Template:Markup

If the reference or note content is missing, then Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content. will be displayed.

If the note content contains an equals sign (=), the equals sign will be interpreted as setting off a named parameter and cause an error. This can be worked around by using a numbered parameter, for example:

Template:Markup


Help:Footnotes

See also

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  • {{citeref}} (a different method to create nested links working on citation template anchor level rather than <ref></ref> markup level)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references

Template:Wikipedia referencing

TemplateData

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Template:TemplateData header

This template is used to create footnotes in Wikipedia, as an alternative and complement to the <ref> tag.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
content1 refn

The content of the footnote.

Contentrequired
namename

The name of the footnote. Corresponds to the "name" attribute of the <ref> tag.

Stringoptional
groupgroup

The reference group. Corresponds to the "group" attribute on the <ref> tag.

Stringoptional