Help:Footnotes

(We can probably copy any Wikipedia template, although some of them get improved or substituted so that our early copies may not work.)

Here we already have Template:Fn and at least one related template. But the Wikipedia one has gone out of favour/favor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Fn.

In at least one New Zealand publishing house (Brookers), footnotes and references are used for different purposes. Court judgments sometimes use footnotes and must be reproduced faithfully even though there are some difficulties when the end product is online.

There seems to be no reason why Wikia should stop using footnotes. Central Wikia says nothing about it, apparently, except in the discussion of MediaWiki 1.6, where there is a link to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php.