Adref
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Template for referencing (print) advertisements. These could appear in more than one publication - we want the oldest shown first, but we need to keep track of where else they were printed (and for how long).
It's also to avoid situations like these[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] where every reference points to effectively the same thing (and we wouldn't have to update every instance if a new magazine scan came along). Official advertisements are usualy more reliable than what editors print in magazine columns, so these references need to stand out as something more important.
e.g.
{{magref|cvg|86|150}}{{magref|cvg|86|150}}{{magref|cvg|86|150}}{{magref|cvg|86|150}}it would be...
{{adref|something}}and that would link to... something else.
Don't know if we want to take into account the advertising agency responsible. Also don't know how to handle retail/mail order advertisements, which I think we need to do eventually for NEC Retro as there were only grey market distributors for the PC Engine in many countries.
I have no idea how to make this work. I just throught I'd throw an idea at a template page -Black Squirrel (talk) 09:43, 1 January 2019 (EST)