Help:Footnotes

Footnotes is a supplementary ornament used within MediaWiki-based documenting. This can be divided into both Notes and References segments where respective information can be specified.

In short, the references section provides citations of reliable sources of any kind of information; meanwhile the scope of notes can be slightly loose as some explanatory or infered content can be addressed. The references feature is a built-in HTML-like function that can be called directly using <ref>...</ref>, <references /> and <references>...</references> (the latter ones are analogous). To ease editing, some useful templates can be used, for example, the most common instance is the template {{reflist}} whereby it acts as a better replacement of the <references /> (yet their effects are interchangeably).