morgandawn: (Lavender Field Here Now)morgandawn ([personal profile] morgandawn) wrote in [community profile] fanlore,
@ 2012-04-04 04:46 pm UTC
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I note we're using  footnotes more and more (or rather we're preferring to use footnotes more and more).  I think it may be helpful to add the "Reference" display code to a few of the templates that seem to generate pages with a lot of footnotes. That way there will need to be fewer key strokes, open tabs and copy and pasting.  And if there are no footnotes when the page is set up, then the code just hangs there at the bottom of the page until it is needed. I know I am more likely to add a footnote if I don't have to navigate to the cheatsheet to track down the Reference code first. 

Thoughts?

edited: Turns out we can create custom "help" templates. I've created one for FanVids here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Vid_pages/Template


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amaresu: Sapphire and Steel from the opening (S&S-assigned, s&s-assigned)


[personal profile] amaresu
2012-04-05 12:36 am UTC (link)
I am in favor of this. Last time I was the first to add footnotes to a page I spent something like 15 minutes figuring out what I was doing wrong and eventually had to look at another page and see what was different.

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[personal profile] morgandawn
2012-04-05 01:15 am UTC (link)
We'll still have to manually type in
< ref > textexttextexttextexttextexttextexttextext < /ref >
for each footnote.

But having the Footnote 'References' display code built into a template is one less thing to mess up.

When I mess up the footnotes it usually is because < ref > or < /ref > is missing or I've made a typo like <ref?

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[personal profile] msilverstar
2012-04-05 02:32 am UTC (link)
excellent plan, models make life easier!

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