[Notice that:
* These are footnotes are listed in the editor-controllable order of their declaration, not in the order in which their references were encountered in the article prose.
* The footnote declarations at the head of the wikitext appear in the '''References''' section, not above the article prose.
* Arbitrary information such as this can be inserted above, below, and between numbered footnotes.
]
['''A header such as this might be inserted above a block of related footnotes''']
[this is the first reference defined]
[this is the second reference defined]
['''A header such as this might be inserted above some other block of related footnotes''']
[this is the third reference defined]
[this is the fourth reference defined]
[this is the fifth reference defined]
['''A header such as this might be inserted above yet another block of related footnotes''']
[this is the sixth reference defined]
[This is an orphan footnote — one which is never referenced in the article prose. (this could be handled as an error)]
['''This is some arbitrary text placed at the end of the footnote declaration block''']
This is a demonstration test case for a proposed cite.php extension coded by wikipedia user Wtmitchell. The explanatory text which follows is laden with a number of arbitrary footnote references in order to demonstrate the functionality added by this extension.
The implemented extensions are intended to be entirely backwards compatible with existing wikitext, and to enhance functionality as follows:
*Allow <Ref>...</Ref> declarations outside of the article prose, thus reducing editorial clutter inside the prose.[This is an anonymous footnote placed inside the article prose][This is a named footnote which first appeared within the article prose] but placing them in the article prose instead of within the footnote/citation declaration block is probably an editorial error.