Template:Reflist-talk/doc

This template is a version of designed for sections of talk pages and other, non-article sections (e.g. blocks of example text with citations in a guideline, a how-to essay, or a template's documentation page).

creates a list of references for a talk page discussion within a particular section. The list has the default title: References. To distinguish it from an article's References section, it appears within a bordered box.

This template could also be useful on other types of non-mainspace pages structured with section headers, e.g., for a section in a user's sandbox.

Usage
To create a section-level reference box in a section containing references within  tags, add the following wikitext to the end of a section:

When having a discussion with new editors or others who might not know how to work with this template, add the following wikitext to the section's end to create a section-level reference box plus task-oriented instructions in a hidden comment:



This hidden comment has instructions designed to keep the wikitext in the right order.

Optional parameters
There are no required parameters. When using all parameters, the basic syntax is:

The template recognizes these features of Reflist:
 * refs: used with list-defined references.
 * group: identifies by name the subset of references to be rendered; the value should correspond to that used inline, e.g., renders all references with groupname as the group name . There are five predefined group names that style the list differently.

The template should be placed after the discussion that includes the references, as it will include all references before the template that haven't been claimed by a previous template.

Do not indent this template
This template does not work correctly if indented with colons as is usual with talk page discussions.

Indenting also is unnecessary, because indentation is irrelevant to it: the reference box contains all the references from all posts in the section from all editors. Plus, it is set apart from other text through a boxed outline.