Thread:Peteparker/@comment-1713281-20130422134921/@comment-1713281-20130425191556

is the Wikipedia template for references, in contrast to the that we use. When we use the Wikipedia version of references here on the site, it makes the source appear in the text instead of the references section, like so. It also cuts off the first word of the source, and makes everything after it appear in this box.

Wikipedia's template for footnotes doesn't work here, at least not how it's supposed to. It leaves an hyper-linked arrow that, when clicked on, tries to redirect you to a section in the article named with the text in your note, like so. It also places everything following it in this box-thing.

The box issue with both is only for text following the templates in the same block of text. Hitting enter and starting a new line takes the text out of the box.

So, there's some framework for it here on Wikia, but it would need tinkering. We'd also need to make it work with a templates so that both show up, and preferably making the template differentiate between reference tags and footnote tags so that they show up in different sections, like Wikipedia.

If we're pipe dreaming, it'd be cool to have the notes and references pop out in text bubbles when you mouse over them; Wikipedia added that feature a few years ago.