Forgotten Realms Wiki:Help-Using footnotes

Using footnotes can be a good way to separate out-of-universe comments from in-universe information, or perhaps add a parenthetical statement to a data point that would be too long to fit nicely in an infobox.

The Footnote Feature
To create a footnote, we use the standard &lt;ref&gt; tag with the group attribute set to "note", like so: The footnote will be given a number, starting with 1 and will be linked at the point where you begin the &lt;ref&gt;. Here is an example of a out-of-universe comment being added to an article: The organizational structure of the Heralds was fairly hierarchical with three levels of authority: the High Heralds, the Heralds Pursuivant, and the local or regional Heralds, plus numerous "court heralds" that served and represented their sovereign while trying to uphold the ideals of the Heralds. which looks to the reader like this:
 * The organizational structure of the Heralds was fairly hierarchical with three levels of authority: the High Heralds, the Heralds Pursuivant, and the local or regional Heralds, plus numerous "court heralds" that served and represented their sovereign while trying to uphold the ideals of the Heralds.

It is important to mention that you cannot put citations inside footnotes&mdash;the closing  tags do not nest.

Footnotes are typically given their own section in the Appendix. To give the footnotes a place to appear, use the &lt;references&gt; tag with the group attribute set to "note", like so: