Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Archive/Let Visual Editor to edit references in notes

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Let Visual Editor to edit references in notes

N Unclear proposal / proposes existing solution

Problem: Visual Editor cannot handle references in notes.
Who would benefit: every editor, new editors
Proposed solution: Let Visual Editor to handle references in notes the same way as every other reference on the page.
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Proposer: Juandev (talk) 20:01, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific? VE will let you edit references that are used to generate a "notes" section. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 16:38, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Pinging Juandev to make sure you see the above question. Regards, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Since we have not heard back from you, I'm going to archive this proposal. Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 16:08, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well I don't come here regularly, since I am not a developer nor I understand coding much.
Yes, VE lets you edit references, but not references in references. For editing references in references you should go to the source code to paste in something like{{#tag:ref|text with references|group=note}}. That is pretty annoying for old editors and hard to understand for new editors. If you need to have notes in the article, you need to have references within these notes. As an example, you can have a look here:
- w:en:Nelson's Pillar#Notes on English Wikipedia,
- w:cs:Vrtbovská zahrada#Poznámky on Czech Wikipedia. Juandev (talk) 08:44, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]