keel example is correct  The bot did the correct thing in leaving the ref in the middle of the sentence  These are examples given in WikipediaREFPUNC  However this is irrelevant as no punctuation is next to those reference  If the reference comes next to punctuation punctuation MUST come before the reference not after it  This clearly stated in REFPUNC  REFPUNC is not ambiguous   The ref tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies including any punctuation  emphasis mine Only dashes and parenthesis are the only given exemptions  Jonsey has since edited the article to do the exact same thing  The edit summary is ref error  It is a ref error