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As was being discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Efn , WP allows for different styles of refs in the text of an article such as "lower-greek", "lower-roman", etc. The most common of these is "lower-alpha", which is used by Template:Notelist to form a separate footnote list and citation list. The issue is that, while the style seen in the article text and ref bullet list can be changed, the style in the backlinks cannot. So it creates something like this:

a. ^abc
b. ^ab
c. ^abcd

Ideally cite.php should allow for alternate backlink styles, and should automatically use Arabic numerals or upper-alpha when the ref-style lower-alpha is selected.

a. ^123
b. ^12
c. ^1234