Help talk:Citation merging

Isn't article describes the same as Wikipedia:Nesting footnotes does? DAVRONOVA.A. ✉ ⚑ 13:39, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

I wish I knew about Wikipedia:Nesting footnotes earlier. I think the two tutorials have separate info, but linking them to each other would make sense. For example, this page should have info stating that refs cannot be nested inside other refs, such as the following. Assume "RosenTablet" reference is defined elsewhere. The first one is valid (without a nested ref), while the last two are invalid.

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Hello text<ref name="EditorialBoard">{{cite news |last1=Editorial Board |title=State Senate candidate Julia Salazar seems to keep making up her past (ex cathedra editorial) |url=https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/state-senate-candidate-julia-salazar-seems-to-keep-making-up-her-past/ |accessdate=27 August 2018 |publisher=New York Post |date=26 August 2016}} </ref> {{reflist}}	Hello text

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Hello text<ref name="EditorialBoard">{{cite news |last1=Editorial Board |title=State Senate candidate Julia Salazar seems to keep making up her past (ex cathedra editorial) |url=https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/state-senate-candidate-julia-salazar-seems-to-keep-making-up-her-past/ |accessdate=27 August 2018 |publisher=New York Post |date=26 August 2016}} * name="RosenTablet" </ref> {{reflist}}	Hello text

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Hello text<ref name="EditorialBoard">{{cite news |last1=Editorial Board |title=State Senate candidate Julia Salazar seems to keep making up her past (ex cathedra editorial) |url=https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/state-senate-candidate-julia-salazar-seems-to-keep-making-up-her-past/ |accessdate=27 August 2018 |publisher=New York Post |date=26 August 2016}} * <ref name="RosenTablet"></ref> </ref> {{reflist}}

Hello text </ref>

--(unsigned) 2018-08-31T02:41:01‎ Shushugah

Citations can be nested by various ways, for example with {{r}}.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 19:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC)