Incorrect footnotes generate error messages in the rendered text (Cite error).
Why not warn the user when trying to save a page with errors?
This would help keeping Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting tidy.
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- T17712: Error generation of unbalanced <ref><references/>: No error is shown if missing </ref>-tag is the last ref tag
T68233: Cite should warn/stop the user from saving if the page is invalid
T28145: Add warning message when <references> is not closed correctly
T74858: Add back an error message for missing <references/>
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There are several cases when this red error message appears in articles:
<ref name="x" /> is used but that reference isn't defined anywhere
<ref> tag is opened but </ref> is missing
Maybe more, I don't know.
My idea is, that users get a message (e.g. popup) when trying to save a page with that errors.
T68233 ssems to be the same concern.