An unclosed <ref> tag on the page eats up the rest of the page, typically including the requisite <reference> tag at the bottom of the page. However, VisualEditor handles the unclosed <ref> tag more gracefully, treating it as plain text.

At the URL above, the wikitext:

Before <ref> during
after
<references />

is rendered:

Before[1]
Cite error: <ref> tag found without <references/>

whereas VisualEditor shows:

Before <ref> during↵after
There are no references on this page to include on this list.

This issue was brought to my attention by an editor who somehow created the unclosed <ref> tag in VisualEditor. (See the initial revision of [[vi:Danh sách các chi tiết gợi nhớ đến Disney trong phim Enchanted]].) I’ve reached out to the editor for information on how they might’ve gotten into that state.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mxn/56306