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Hi. I saw your feedback on Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. The section on "Creating footnotes" in Chapter 2 explains how to create and edit footnote references in Wikipedia.

Specifically, I believe the following two bullet points from that page answer your query:

• When you want to edit an existing footnote, remember that the text of that footnote goes in the body of the article, even though Wikipedia displays it in the References section. So don't open the References section to edit that footnote: All you'll see is the section heading and the <references/> tag (or its variant, the {{reflist}} template). To edit an existing footnote, either go into edit mode for the entire article, or preferably go into edit mode for just the section where the text for the footnote is located.
• The footnote number (^[1]) and the displayed footnote are linked. If you click on the upward caret (the "^") in footnote 1, the cursor moves to the ^[1].

If you can think of a way to make this information clearer or easier to find, please leave further feedback, or put a comment on the talk page. Thanks. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 16:26, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

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