Talk:Milligram per cent

Complex nested reference
I put in a citation for Figure 2.4 on page 17 of a biostatistics textbook that could easily contain other references on other pages. I wanted to nest references, so the text would render as "blah.^[1]", then under the Notes heading for [1] would appear " Rosner, Figure 2.4, page 17", and in the References section would appear the full data about this edition of Rosner, with ISBN, etc., linked from the link in the Notes section (which presumably could contain other links to Rosner). Trying to set that up using group= and name= was too complicated and didn't get anything like acceptable rendering; also, there's an implication in the current (2010-01-06=We) notes for citations that MediaWiki rendering doesn't properly support such nesting without some ugly hacks.

Can somebody suggest a way to code all this that actually works? Of course, this article seems too unimportant (though I really needed it the first time I tried to figure out what "mg%/ml" might mean), but the nested-reference coding could be useful in much larger articles.

Is the punctuation correct in the book citation itself for Rosner? I didn't see a clear guideline; is there one? If there are several, should alternatives have links from the citation documentation?

There are multiple pages containing citation documentation; I didn't get the impression there's a clear do-it-like-this source, so I had to keep it simple and improvise.

67.171.37.107 (talk) 20:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)