This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it
appears to me that it would be significantly more user-friendly to
append a <references/> section at the bottom of the text that is being
parsed when it is missing.
This would
* make it easier for new users to discover referencing functionality
(oldbies could still properly reformat the tag);
* solve the "references missing in section preview" problem.
Is there any obvious reason not to do this?
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