Difference between revisions of "Template:Refname rules"
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<includeonly>{{{1|Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules:}}} | <includeonly>{{{1|Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules:}}} | ||
* Names are case-sensitive | * Names are case-sensitive | ||
− | * Names MUST NOT be purely numeric; rather, they must have semantic value so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other. Prefacing a number with a colon does not add semantic value. | + | * Names MUST NOT be purely numeric; rather, they must have semantic value so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other by human editors. Prefacing a number with a colon does not add semantic value; thus, <code>":0"</code>, etc, is deprecated. |
* Names must be unique—you may not use the same name to define different groups or footnotes | * Names must be unique—you may not use the same name to define different groups or footnotes | ||
* Quotation marks are optional if the only characters used are letters <code>A–Z</code>, <code>a–z</code>, digits <code>0–9</code>, and the symbols <code>! $ % & ( ) * , - . : ; < @ [ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~</code>. | * Quotation marks are optional if the only characters used are letters <code>A–Z</code>, <code>a–z</code>, digits <code>0–9</code>, and the symbols <code>! $ % & ( ) * , - . : ; < @ [ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~</code>. |