Last modified: 2006-07-01 17:14:40 UTC
When <references/> is not set in the page, footnotes included in <ref> should be shown at the bottom of the page anyway, so that the reader can still see them. This is useful if the tag <references/> has been forgotten, but alos for talk pages where the <references/> tag can en up being hidden in the discussions.
I'm going to merge this to bug 5492, since they probably would be implemented the same way. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5492 ***