User:Pengo/pageusingref

This is an example of how &lt;ref&gt; tags don't work inside templates.

'''Here's a with its &lt;ref&gt; tag within a template.. '''

This reference works, but the one in the template (above) doesn't.

Bug reports

 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php#Current_issues (Using &lt;ref&gt; within a template will create correctly numbered reference mark but it will be missing from the output of a &lt;reference /&gt; on the calling page.
 * Bug 2257: Template parameters and parser hooks are handled in wrong order

Some words from Brion on the topic:
 * that likely will never "work" the way you want with the current parser.
 * we cannot guarantee that they will be parsed in the order you want.