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References

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NOTE: Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see for details.

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1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9.

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2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, where you want the new footnote.

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3) Take note of the name of the footnote that immediately proceeds yours in the article body.

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4) Add #{{Note|TheSun_Dec9}} to the list, immediately below the footnote you noted in step3.

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5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference will not work: you must insert two uniquely-named footnotes.

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NOTE: It is important to add the Footnote in the right order (the order in which they are referred to in the article body) in the list.

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