Last modified: 2014-04-16 19:33:44 UTC
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#VE.2C_Sfn_template_within_reference.2C_Vcite_error Adding a <ref> tag (e.g., a bibliographic citation) inside another <ref> tag with a different group (e.g., an explanatory footnote), displays as desired in VisualEditor, but when you save the page, it isn't visible because of Bug 20707 in Cite.php This is most likely to happen with a ref-creating template like {{sfn}}, since VisualEditor doesn't have the buttons to created nested ref tags directly.
(In reply to comment #0) > Adding a <ref> tag (e.g., a bibliographic citation) inside another <ref> tag > with a different group (e.g., an explanatory footnote), displays as desired > in > VisualEditor, but when you save the page, it isn't visible because of Bug > 20707 > in Cite.php If this problem is covered in bug 20707 already I'm not sure what your intention was to file another bug report. Could you clarify please?
We have mismatched behavior. Either *both* systems should display nested refs, or VisualEditor should stop displaying nested refs to match the limited features available to readers. Whether this mismatch should be solved by reducing VisualEditor's ability to process nested refs or by increasing the other system's ability to process nested refs is beyond my paygrade.
