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I'm trying to understand how the references are meant to work on the BPO Standards and Guidelines article. There are 7 references, but only six are made reference to inline. Which reference corresponds to which number? I would be grateful if you could let me know so that I can improve the references section of the article. Thanks --Mrmatiko (talk) 14:26, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- I also saw this article. You should be able to fix it easily: Instead of putting "reference n" between the "ref" and "ref/" tags, just put the reference itself between the tags! --Slashme (talk) 15:11, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- I thought about just doing that, but there are 7 references & reference to only 6 of them so I'm not sure whether there was a mistake made or not. Just wanted clarification before accidentally "fixing" the references only for none of the references to correspond with the correct text. --Mrmatiko (talk) 15:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
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