Template talk:reflist

Wikipedia reflist template
So is there a counterpart to Wikipedia's reflist template? I admit that I'm a Wikipedian. Boud (talk) 23:19, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Everyone here is a Wikipedian. This template is a terrible idea; should be renamed; and then replaced with the Wiki template. There are some of us who don't even know the 15:44, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't know about that markup. Seeing your edits to this template recently reminded me of a conversation I had a while back with another editor – I'm afraid I don't remember whom and where. When I copied and  from the English Wikipedia here, that editor said that  was not needed here since  worked just as well. I then said I would update the documentation to state that I had only intended to use  with, but I forgot to do so until now. Personally I have no problem if editors wish to use  with  tags, but there might be some objections. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:59, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I was going to recommend deleting refn, but now that understand its functionality on wiki better, it's intention is not to be a partner to reflist, but rather to add the ability of including references inside of references, which is actually a functionally I really need. So that said, unless you need that functionality, you should be using . -- 16:14, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * If is not going anywhere, what's the harm of using it with ? That seems to be how it is used at the English Wikipedia, which is why I ported it over here (see the documentation of w:Template:Refn). — SGconlaw (talk) 16:30, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * is the more characters than and is slower because it has to run through a template. -- 16:34, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * So ... then is there any point in keeping here? What else is it useful for? — SGconlaw (talk) 17:33, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , if you see the params I added, you'll see its use, which is as a formatting wrapper. -- 03:28, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Wrapper for what sort of templates? — SGconlaw (talk) 03:34, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I.e. notes. -- 04:03, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Mmmm, I see. Guess I'll have to see how it's used in practice as I can't picture it right now. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)