Difference between revisions of "Template:Refname rules"

From blackwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
test>DragonflySixtyseven
(grrr)
test>Redrose64
(if you claim that it's deprecated, you should be able to indicate where such deprecation was announced - in fact, it's not, since the ":1" form is a non-negotiable part of WP:VE)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
<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 by human editors. Prefacing a number with a colon does not add semantic value; thus, <code>":0"</code>, etc, is deprecated.
+
* Names MUST NOT be purely numeric; they should have semantic value so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other.
 
* 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>.

Revision as of 23:10, 3 January 2017

Template documentation[create]