Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (footnotes)/Mixed citations and footnotes

This style of citation was a type of referencing used on Wikipedia until September 2020, when a community discussion reached a consensus to deprecate this format of citation. While some existing articles may still use this form of citation, new articles should not be created with it. For more information on citations in Wikipedia articles, see Citing sources.

Example
Foo was invented by Nescio Nomen in the 17th century.

A century later, Foo was refined by Negidius Numerius. Numerius, interestingly, also subsequently refined the Blaz that predated Foo.

It was also Negidius Numerius who established that N. Nomen was the original inventor of Foo.

Even though Baz is sometimes confused with Foo, Baz was independently invented by Nescio Nomen.