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Explanatory footnotes or Efn are footnotes which provide something other than, or more than, a reference to a source that supports the accompanying text. The first unnamed parameter is displayed as the content of the footnote. Note that if the note's content contains an "=" character, a reference error will be displayed; precede the content with |1= (or one of its aliases, |text=, |reference=, or |content=) to fix the error.
The following explanation is transcluded from Help:Footnotes. {{#section:Help:footnotes|pregroup}}
Example articles
- Logic Theorist (a short article showing basic usage)
- Chinese room (a long and complex article which uses all the features: named footnotes, list defined notes, etc.)
- Empire of Brazil
- John Diefenbaker (with name= and notes in {{notes}})
- USS Monitor|USS Monitor
Template data
Description: <templatedata> { "description": "Inserts an explanatory footnote. Notes can be named and grouped.", "params": { "1": { "aliases": [ "reference", "text", "content" ], "label": "Note", "description": "Text of the note", "type": "content", "required": true }, "name": { "label": "Ref. name", "description": "Reference name of the note", "type": "string" }, "group": { "label": "Reference group", "description": "Styled group to which the note belongs", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "upper-alpha", "lower-greek", "note", "lower-roman", "upper-roman" ] } } } </templatedata>