Template talk:Fact-span

Merge?
This seems useful, but why not merge the feature into citation needed? We could add a parameter for the same functionality. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:31, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If it is possible, why not? It seems a similar feature, if not the quite the same, has just been merged from Reference necessary to Citation needed, but then reverted for further work. See Template talk:Citation needed. Here is an example using the sandbox version of :




 * The above wikitext will render as follows:


 * While this example used to request a citation for a specific part of a sentence.
 * I have hacked my CSS to display the wrapped text "shows the template" in yellow, but others may see just the faint dotted underlining.
 * -84user (talk) 04:12, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I just noticed this template is being used here in Gwanghwamun and here in 2009 flu pandemic in Japan. The idea started from Template talk:Citation needed/Archive 7. -84user (talk) 04:44, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * A similar change to (although using a dotted underline instead of pink background) is presently under discussion at Template talk:Citation needed. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm cansee no reason not ot merge this to Ref nec. straight away. Rich Farmbrough, 05:56, 26 October 2010 (UTC).