Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-5773740-20131027213144/@comment-4787430-20131028182142

I think having the ==References== section visible makes it easier for editors to quickly identify that it is a section for references, and add which contains only the list of references. Whereas if you include the ==References== header in a template those that edit in visual mode may not know that the section exists within the template and may mistakenly add the References header.

As for font size, if there is a page with a long list of references, such as the Dwemer page, it can look like an eye sore, but that has more to do with our current limited page width. We are going to get our page width back in a couple months when Fluid Layout is released to all wikis. So, we could finally make use of the template, which will split long reference pages into two columns. For an example of what it will look like, take a look at the this test page I whipped up on Community Test Wikia: Dwemer - TESWiki