Template talk:Reflist

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The 'talkpage' parameter?

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I have noticed {{reflist|talkpage}} at Talk:Conway base 13 function (specifically, here: Special:permalink/1212662718#Almost everything maps to 0?). It seems to do similar thing to {{reflist-talk}} but without the 'References' title and a bordering frame. Could someone, please, describe the talkpage parameter at the template's doc page? --CiaPan (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

The first positional parameter controls column width. Since talkpage is not a number specifying number or width of columns, {{reflist}} simply ignores talkpage and renders as it would in a mainspace article. Probably a typo.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

OK, so I inserted {{reflist-talk}} there. --CiaPan (talk) 13:12, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Default Height

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, I come from the French Wikipedia.

On our Wikipedia, when references are numerous, we use a Références nombreuses template (numerous references) which has the particularity, which your Reflist has not, to be adjustable in height, with 30em as the default.

You can see this in action on our Kate Bush page, which has as many (if not more) references as your Kate Bush page, but thanks to the maximum height of the references, it has better ergonomics.

For this to happen, I noticed that our reference list has an additional div around the ol element, and of course some additional CSS.

I think it could be interesting to add this to your Wikipedia as well.

— Peshigome :3 (Blah Blah | Contributions) 08:43, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Our manual of style says not to use such scrolling lists due to concerns over accessibility. Anomie⚔ 10:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ho okay, yeah ok, Scrolling list explicitly ask not to use scrolling list on reference lists. — Peshigome :3 (Blah Blah | Contributions) 10:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources § New proposal: deprecate {{reflist|refs= in favor of <references>?

Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

  You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources § New proposal: deprecate {{reflist|refs= in favor of <references>?. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 03:01, 30 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Articles with no references

Latest comment: 18 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Is there a way to identify articles that include {{reflist}} but do not have any actual references? Palagianello railway station is one example. I'm trying to identify and cleanup unreferenced articles. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 12:04, 15 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Here are 2,000 articles that contain {{reflist}}, have no closing </ref> tags, and have "station" in their article name. There may be some false positives if articles use {{sfn}} or similar syntax, but that search should give you plenty to work on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:16, 15 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Awesome, didn't even think to try it that way. Thanks! Mackensen (talk) 16:51, 15 August 2025 (UTC)Reply