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This page describes procedures to convert the references from {{fnote}} defined in the body of the article to {{ldr}} where the references are defined in the reference list.<br />
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Such a conversion may be necessary in order to move text with many references from an article that uses the list-defined format to another article, or may be used to format all references in an article so that they all conform to the same format. It requires installation of the [[User:PleaseStand/References segregator|References segregator]] tool.<br />
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==Converting from the inline to the list-defined format==<br />
* The [[User:PleaseStand/References segregator|References segregator]] tool can automatically convert all references to the list-defined format.<br />
* Use a [[regular expression]] |search and replace operation to replace uses of {{tag|ref|o}} tags with the {{tl|r}} template. To do that, search for: <code><nowiki><ref name="(.*?)"/></nowiki></code>, and replace it with <code><nowiki>{{r\|"$1"}}</nowiki></code>, while checking the "Treat search string as a regular expression" checkbox.<br />
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==Converting from the list-defined to the inline format==<br />
# Use a [[regular expression]] search and replace operation to replace uses of the {{tl|r}} template with {{tag|ref|o}} tags. To do that, search for: <code><nowiki>\{\{r\|([^}]+)\}\}</nowiki></code>, and replace it with {{tag|ref|s|params=name="$1"}}, while checking the "Treat search string as a regular expression" checkbox.<br />
# Copy and remove (cut) the entire {{tl|reflist}} template with the list of references.<br />
# Install the [[User:PleaseStand/References segregator|References segregator]] tool and click the "Segregate refs for editing" button.<br />
# Remove all the empty {{tag|ref|o}} tags from the lower text box.<br />
# Paste the list of references into the lower text box (after its existing contents).<br />
# Save the page, which merges the citation templates from the lower text box into the upper text box and removes the unused footnotes in the process.<br />
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