Editing Help:Footnotes (section)

==Overview==
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The Footnotes system shows two elements on the page:
* A '''Footnote marker''' is displayed in the article's content as a bracketed, superscripted number, letter, or word. Examples shown respectively are: {{dummy ref}}{{dummy ref|a}}{{dummy ref|Note 1}}. This footnote label is linked to the full footnote. Clicking on the footnote marker jumps the page down to the footnote and highlights the citation. If you are using the desktop site and have Javascript enabled, then hovering your cursor over a footnote marker (or touching it on touch devices) will show a pop-up box containing the footnote.
* A '''Footnote''' displays the full citation for the source. Together the footnotes are displayed in an ordered list wherever the reference list markup {{tl|reflist}} is placed. Each entry begins with the footnote label in plain text. The entire reference list is formatted in a slightly smaller font.

:Each successive footnote label is automatically incremented. Thus the first footnote marker would be {{dummy ref}}, the second would be {{dummy ref|2}} and so on. Custom labels are also incremented: {{dummy ref|a}}{{dummy ref|b}}{{dummy ref|c}}, {{dummy ref|Note 1}} {{dummy ref|Note 2}} {{dummy ref|Note 3}}.
:For a single-use footnote, the label is followed by a caret (^) that is a backlink to the matching footnote marker. For example:
{{dummy footnote|margin=5em}}
:If a named footnote is used in the text multiple times, then the footnote has multiple backlinks shown as letters:
{{dummy footnote|2|a b c|margin=5em}}
:Clicking on the backlink or pressing {{keypress|Alt|←}} returns to the footnote marker.

===Footnotes in action===
The superscript numeral "1" in square brackets at the end of this sentence is an example of a footnote marker.<ref>This is a footnote that contains a citation or note.</ref>

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