**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where):
I think it would be great time to add a Duplicate feature to references when editing with VE.
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(new action is drawn in red-irange; I don't mean that color should actually be red-orange :))
So what I'm proposing is a new duplicate feature in VE that works more or less like so:
# VE-Edit article.
# Click on any ref.
# Click on a new "Duplicate" action.
## If you selected <nowiki><ref name="abc"/> it would create a new ref with some new name: <ref name=":1">...content of name=abc...</ref></nowiki>
## If you selected <nowiki><ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</ref> it would create a new subref: <ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</ref></nowiki>
This would help me a lot and I also know people struggle with duplicating references also for reasons other then subrefs/pages.
**Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
# I want to create a 2nd subref with different pages.
# I want to create a 2nd ref to a different book of same author; duplication would save me some work I think.
Currently to duplicate a reference you have to:
# Open another browser tab with a 2nd article.
# VE-Edit the 2nd article.
# Go back to original, 1st article.
# Copy from 1st to 2nd.
# Copy back from 2nd to 1st.
Current procedure is very hard to discover and even then it takes some setup to execute...
**Benefits** (why should this be implemented?):
Duplicating refs with VE could be much easier (and much, much more discoverable).
So implementing this duplication will make it easier to add some references for all users using VE. And will also help in adoption of subrefs feature.