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==Footnotes: page numbers==
'''MOD: This should almost never be required on All The Tropes, given that our Style Guide says to put the source inline in the trope or work example text if a source is required at all.'''
Suppose you would like to cite one book, but different facts appear on different pages. You would like to cite the book again and again, but point each fact to the proper page. Suppose one fact is on page 8, a different fact on page 12, a third fact on page 18, a fourth fact on page 241. You could put a line in the "pages" parameter saying "see pages 8, 12, 18, 241" but a fact-checker might have to check all of them before figuring out the right one. Or, you could duplicate the entire citation for the book in each instance, but that would be redundant. One common approach is to use [[Help:Shortened footnotes|shortened citations]], which requires the use of a References section following the footnotes section. Another approach is to attach a {{tlx|rp|8}} right after the footnote marker and replace the "8" with the appropriate page number.
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