2009/9/20 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
What's the actual use case for nested refs? (Do
you have an example
page or two where they're useful and there's no way to do it right
without nesting the refs?)
“There’s no way”? Well, obviously, there is always a way do it
differently… But nested refs can be useful especially with grouped
references [1], when a footnote can refer to a source (or, more
generally, refs from one group can refer to another group).
Note that there is a workaround for this problem, explained at the
enwp help page. [2]
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Grouped_references
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes#Known_bugs