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Created page with "{{Documentation subpage}} <!-- Please place categories where indicated at the bottom of this page ) --> ===Purpose=== This template is used to create footnotes in Chabadpedia, as an alternative and complement to the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref></syntaxhighlight>. Because of a technical limitation, some of the standard Chabadpedia markup elements that are often used in the ar..."
 
 
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===Purpose===
===Purpose===
This template is used to [[Help:Footnotes|create footnotes in Chabadpedia]], as an alternative and complement to the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref></syntaxhighlight>. [[:mw:Help:Cite#Substitution and embedded parser functions|Because of a technical limitation]], some of the standard Chabadpedia markup elements that are often used in the article prose do not work within a set of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>...</ref></syntaxhighlight> tags, including but not limited to [[Help:Pipe trick|the pipe trick]], [[Wikipedia:Substitution|template substitution]] and another "nested" set of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>...</ref></syntaxhighlight> tags. For example, the following does not work as expected:
This template is used to [[Help:Footnotes|create footnotes in Chabadpedia]], as an alternative and complement to the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref></syntaxhighlight>. [[:mw:Help:Cite#Substitution and embedded parser functions|Because of a technical limitation]], some of the standard Chabadpedia markup elements that are often used in the article prose do not work within a set of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>...</ref></syntaxhighlight> tags, including but not limited to [[Help:Pipe trick|the pipe trick]], [[Chabadpedia:Substitution|template substitution]] and another "nested" set of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>...</ref></syntaxhighlight> tags. For example, the following does not work as expected:
# <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</ref></syntaxhighlight> (Generates: <nowiki>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</nowiki> instead of a wikilink)
# <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</ref></syntaxhighlight> (Generates: <nowiki>[[Help:Footnotes|]]</nowiki> instead of a wikilink)
# <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</ref></syntaxhighlight> (Generates: <nowiki>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</nowiki> instead of the date that the edit was made)
# <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><ref>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</ref></syntaxhighlight> (Generates: <nowiki>{{SUBST:TODAY}}</nowiki> instead of the date that the edit was made)
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{{tld|refn|2=group=groupname|3=name=name|4=Contents of the footnote|allowlinebreak=yes}}
{{tld|refn|2=group=groupname|3=name=name|4=Contents of the footnote|allowlinebreak=yes}}


:* '''groupname''': Groupname per [[WP:REFGROUP]]; if not specified, then the main and nested references will be rendered into the same reference list
:* '''groupname''': Groupname per [[CP:REFGROUP]]; if not specified, then the main and nested references will be rendered into the same reference list
:* '''name''': Reference name per [[WP:REFNAME]]
:* '''name''': Reference name per [[CP:REFNAME]]


{{refname rules}}
{{refname rules}}
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*{{tl|r}} (another template supporting nested footnotes)
*{{tl|r}} (another template supporting nested footnotes)
*{{tl|citeref}} (a different method to create nested links working on citation template anchor level rather than <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> markup level)
*{{tl|citeref}} (a different method to create nested links working on citation template anchor level rather than <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> markup level)
{{Wikipedia referencing}}
{{Chabadpedia referencing}}


== TemplateData ==
== TemplateData ==
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"description": "This template is used to create footnotes in Wikipedia, as an alternative and complement to the <ref> tag.",
"description": "This template is used to create footnotes in Chabadpedia, as an alternative and complement to the <ref> tag.",
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