Forum:Disappearing References

Okay, so I was wondering if you guys could help me out. Occassionally on the Fairy Tail Wiki, our list of references at the bottom of the page, go blank and all of the references appear within the articles. Any ideas why?


 * Can you link to a page with the problem?

It's a bit tough to find one since it's usually random, but here's an old version of a page that had the problem.


 * Odd, using  works, but   doesn't, even though   only contains  . It might be a transclusion thing, but I'm not sure. I noticed that you have 95   tags on that page, but 100   tags. The MediaWiki parser might be confused by that, although again I'm not sure. See if you can keep the opening and closing tag numbers the same, and if it still pops up, I'd Special:Contact. You can check how many tags you have with ctrl+f.


 * The extra tags are from when I used a duplicate reference opening tag instead of . I'll special contact to see what the problem is, or just replace all instances of will not work but typing   will work.
 * --  paul mccartney    Songpedia   Band   Blog   Chat       Contribs   12:20, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

I tried typing the second one as well, and it does the same thing. In addition I found a page that has it's references messing up and instead of trying to fix it, i'm just protecting it so only admins can edit it, so the special contact people can get a proper view of what's happening.

Here's the page. If anyone has any more advice, i'm definitely willing to try it.


 * See w:c:fairytail:Aries/test and w:c:fairytail:Template:Reflist scroll. Sometimes it's best to not use templates within templates unless you really have to. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 21 May 2011 3:24 PM Pacific

Okay so I should replace all instances of our scroll box and reflist with the reflist scroll?