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::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. | ::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! [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 01:26, 10 May 2011 (CDT) | ::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! [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 01:26, 10 May 2011 (CDT) | ||
:::David, one thing at a time. Do '''not''' add a space after the forward slash. In my example, I used a thin space just for aesthetics on the display page. On the edit page, for the part where I wanted the method to work, I did not use any space. If that confused you, it may confuse others .... so I will remove the thin spaces from this article. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 10:41, 10 May 2011 (CDT) |
Revision as of 10:41, 10 May 2011
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)
- David, one thing at a time. Do not add a space after the forward slash. In my example, I used a thin space just for aesthetics on the display page. On the edit page, for the part where I wanted the method to work, I did not use any space. If that confused you, it may confuse others .... so I will remove the thin spaces from this article. Milton Beychok 10:41, 10 May 2011 (CDT)