Last modified: 2014-03-20 23:14:19 UTC
PamD at the English Wikipedia reports that there is no easy way to add new content between a reflist and a template that follows it before you save the page. This is a problem if your workflow is to add the stub template before adding the external links, which is entirely reasonable. Steps to reproduce (option 1): 1. create page with references and a reflist. 2. add a template (e.g. a stub template) after the reflist 3. add content between the references list and the template (e.g. an external links section). Steps to reproduce (option 2): 1. Go to a page with no content between a reflist block and a template (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyson_R._Roberts&oldid=565739822&veaction=edit ) 2. Delete all content after the reflist: 3. Add a template (e.g. a stub template) 4. Add content between the references list and the template (e.g. an external links section). There is a workaround: select the reflist, press the right cursor key once, press enter. This gets you a blank line with which to work from. Desired behaviour: There should be somewhere to click between the reflist and the stub template, just as there is after the page has been saved and reopened in VE.
Whatamidoing comments that the issue is that there is no way easy to select a line starting with a template: So someone added a book to a ==Further reading== section. Book #1 used a citation template. Book #2 did not. Neither had bullet list formatting. Selecting them was hard. I ended up selecting the header, the template, and the plain-text citation. Then I clicked the 'list' button. Then I went back and repaired the formatting for the section heading. This isn't necessary, but it was easier than trying to figure out the exact stop to place the cursor. [...] [The] problem is that it's hard to select just the line that contains the template. You have to find the magic spot in the middle of "==Heading==<nowiki>{{template}}</nowiki>" to select the template without picking up the entire section heading. I managed it later in testing, but only if I'm selecting text with arrow keys. With the trackpad, it's still beyond me.
This is caused by bug 49784; if we knew that the template you'd just added was a block, we would insert a slug above the template (which exists precisely for this reason). Merging. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49784 ***
