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Dear Alfa-ketosav. Thank you for your attention to the article Arthur Richard Dillon. Your edit summary reads "fixing some reference errors". I am the one who put these "errors" in. For example the first: <ref name="FOOTNOTEFisquet1867[httpsbooksgooglecoukbooksidRclkoCtVzMkCpgPA75 75]"/>. This is in my eyes a perfectly correct invocation of a citation that has been defined elsewhere in this article, in this case the very first citation, situated in the section called "Birth and origins". I used the Sfn template for the first use and then invoked it by name when I needed to repeat it, simply because the invocation by name is shorter than the original Sfn. This is perhaps not very often done. You replaced the invocation by name with another sfn but dropped the footquote. It seems the citation style I used is called "shortened footnotes", or perhaps a variant of it that uses Sfn but also invocation by name using REF tags. I am not an expert on citations, perhaps you could explain to me the mistake I made. Do you think I mixed styles and therefore contravened WP.CITESTYLE? As you surely know, citing in Wikipedia can be done in many ways and these should be tolerated once a style is established as prescribed in WP:CITEVAR. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 07:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. By "reference errors", I meant that {{sfn}} defined a reference with the same name multiple times with different content, for the citation name contains nothing in the quotes in the references. If the citation name contained at least part of citations the quotes, there would be no reference errors. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 07:31, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Alfa-ketosav. Oh, I see. The problem was that Citation bot on 18 April 2023 amended ".co.uk" -> ".com", which changed the name of the citation thereby provoking a citation error in my "invocation by name using a REF tag". You then eliminated that citation error by replacing my invocation by name with an sfn. That fixed the citation error but lost the footquote. I think I will reestablish my "invocation by name using a REF tag" (or how do you call this?) using the amended name. Please tell me if you have a better idea. I am keen on improving the way I do my citations. Johannes Schade (talk) 09:08, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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