Thread:Dinoguy1000/@comment-3388044-20160401050659/@comment-166269-20160401063441

Okay, having separate  and   appears to be needed to fix bugs with trying to use indent and multiple columns together; see wikipedia:Template talk:Refbegin and this edit. What's happening here is that the opening  tag is only output by Refbegin if the   parameter is defined, but the closing   tag is always output by Refend. This works fine on Wikipedia since they use HTML Tidy, which strips the orphaned closing tag, but Wikia doesn't use Tidy, so instead of being stripped, the closing tag is just interpreted as plain text. There really isn't any good solution here; the most graceful fix possible would require Extension:Variables to be enabled here, and if it isn't already, staff may be apprehensive about enabling it here (though if you're at all interested in using it more generally, you should definitely ask anyways). Short of that, the only real solutions are things like just removing the closing tag (which may cause the page to break when  is used), or requiring   to also be provided to Refend, or simply removing it from Refbegin altogether.