User:Pengo/pageusingref

This is an example of how <ref> tags don't work inside templates.

Here's a Thingy with its <ref> tag within a template..

This reference works, but the one in the template (above) doesn't.

References

note that #3 is missing here. It is defined in the template {{User:Pengo/mytemplatewitharef}}

Bug reports

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php#Current_issues (Using <ref> within a template will create correctly numbered reference mark but it will be missing from the output of a <reference /> on the calling page.
• Bug 2257: Template parameters and parser hooks are handled in wrong order

Some words from Brion on the topic:

• that likely will never "work" the way you want with the current parser.
• we cannot guarantee that they will be parsed in the order you want.