New Reference style: put the footnote text inside <ref> ... </ref> tags (always remembering the second one, otherwise it fails horribly), and then add a usual "References" section with a <references /> tag in it. Simple! And, yes, it works automagically. The FAC crowd swoon when they see it :) You can also add a "name" to the <ref> (<ref name="Fred_p21">) so you can use it more than once. I think Saffron is the epitome at the moment, although it puts the <references /> tag in a "Notes" section, and has a separate "References" section referred to by the Notes, which themselves use Harvard style using the {{Harv}} template (which I had not seen until just now). -- ALoan(Talk) 21:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Let me try a simpler stab at it. First, put the magic tag <references/> wherever it is that you want the list of footnotes to show up. Then, wherever you want to put a footnote into your prose, add <ref>My footnote data goes here</ref>. The "My footnore data goes here" will show up not in the prose but down at the bottom in a linked footnote. It's almost simpler to do than explain. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 21:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
The alternate Template:Reflist does the same thing as the "references" closing tag, except it automatically generates reduced size text, and has an option to generate two or three columns.
Two columns with "straw" background color are created by inserting the templates {{top}}, {{mid}} (at the end of the first column), and {{bottom}} (at the end of the second column). See Template:top
Two columns without background can also be created with Wiki pipe syntax (see Help:Table), but this reverses row and column order:
{|
|<li>item a<li>item b<li>item c
|<li>item d<li>item e<li>item f
|}
* {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}}~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test)
* {{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}}~~~~ (unintentional removal of content)
* {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}}~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption)
* {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}}~~~~ (variant for removal of content)
* {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}}~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning)
* {{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}}~~~~ (please stop removing content)
* {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}}~~~~ (last warning for vandalism)
* {{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}}~~~~ (last warning for removing content)
* {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}}~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only)
* {{subst:uw-delete4im|PageName}}~~~~ (only warning; for many blankings in a short period of time)
