CZ Talk:List-defined references

Query by David Finn

When I tried this system in my sandbox I got the message

"Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found"

When I look at the explanation here, it reads in part

"<ref name=id/ >"

with a space after the /, but when I add the space it makes things worse.

What am I doing wrong?

Also I have a question - is it possible to mix this system and the reflist system? David Finn 16:15, 9 May 2011 (CDT)

David, you didn't read the coding in my example well enough. The list in the References section is part of a template that starts with {{reflist|refs= and ends with }}. Go to your sandbox at User talk:David Finn/countries ... its working now because I added those two things as you can see on the edit page of your sandbox.

I don't know if you can mix this variant of the reflist system with conventional reflist system. However, there are other things that you can do with the new system which I did not include in this article because I felt they were simply much too complicated. If you are interested, you can read WP:List-defined reference how-to guide. That's where I learned how to use this system which was just added here with the recent Mediawiki software upgrade by Dan Nessett.

Hope this answers your questions. -Milton Beychok 00:16, 10 May 2011 (CDT)

Cartainly does, thanks very much for that.

I see that the additional text you added is mentioned in the example of this article, but not in the main text. That's to say, I read the section called "Overview of how LDR works" and followed those instructions, but the extra part that I missed was in the example, further down. Maybe a note about it could be placed in the "Some rules" section?

I also tried adding the space that appears in your example after the refname=id/ to my own article and it messes up the format - is the space just a typo? I have left my sandbox that way in case you don't get what I mean. If you look at its history you will see I added just one space to make it the same as your instructions.

Ps I am sure I am explaining this badly - I have just changed the text of List-defined references page for you, and then reverted myself, so you will know which part of the text I mean. If I was incorrect please let me know! David Finn 01:26, 10 May 2011 (CDT)