Talk:False friend

There is something weird in the references here. I'm guessing that it's caused by the  stuff. It seems to be generating a some sort of circular reference in the references section. I don't want to zap it as I guess it supposed to be doing something really clever.--Bob M 19:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and zapped it as it simply seemed to be creating some extraneous numbers in the reference. If was doing something useful please put it back in - but could you please tell me what purpose it serves? thanks.  :-) --Bob M 17:20, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Greetings Bob M. If you click the number at each of the inline citations it takes you to the referenced work - at least with my Windows. Maybe if you're using a different operating system you're getting something strange, but I'm not sure how or why that should affect it. Unless you really object, I'd like to stick 'em back in there 'cos I reckon references are important. --Technopat 17:47, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * All I saw were some blue numbers in the references which, when I clicked them, took me back to the very same page. (I saw, and still see, the ISBM number.) If does something please put them back by all means - but could you tell me where they are supposed to take me.  Or click them and tell me where they take you? You say "the referenced work" but what do you mean by that?  Another URL or what? (I'm working on Firefox/Vista.)--Bob M 18:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If you go back to one of the versions there were before zapping 'em, you should see three number 1s attached to a phrase/fact. Each of these takes you to the same referenced work as the ID for the reliable source. On this particular page there's no URL, but there are other articles where the inline reference takes you to an external source. I was aware of several "issues" with Vista and suspect that this might be one of 'em - especially with Firefox. Do you know of any other way that Teflpedia can cite the same source more thna once in the same article?--Technopat 20:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've put it back to where it was but I still can't get my mind round what it's supposed to be doing. Wait! Now I see! It's a way of not having to repeat the same reference. I was clicking the numbers at the bottom of the page and trying to see what they were trying to tell me. But that just seemed to pointlessly take me up into the article. In fact they (I now see obviously) refer from the article to the reference. Now that you ask I have the impression there is another way to do this - but I could be totally mistaken. Nevertheless, now that I understand this, there is no issue.  Sorry to mess you about.  --Bob M 20:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Not to worry - it's more likely to be yet another Vista issue with Firefox. As for another way of doing it, I'm using the standard Wikipedia formula and I don't see why it should come out slightly differently here. Wonders of hyper-whatever, or should that be cyber-whatever? Cheers! --Technopat 06:19, 3 June 2009 (UTC)