what was done on these two pages is a bit different from the pages i'm used to seeing most of the pages i've looked at place a tag in a section named references and populate that section with inline ref item instances where ref item is often formatted by one of the citation templates from wp citet individual ref items in the text hook to their references section appearances via numbered links and backlinks supplied by the mechanism behind the and tags the cite php extension to mediawiki the ref note template family can also be used to supply connective links and backlinks but don't do auto numbering of links wp gtl describes the references section as containing items that you used in constructing the article and have referenced cited in the article an example is then given using which puts the example item into a collection under an example section named confusingly to me notes instead of references what appears to have been done on the two pages being discussed here is that the items which would go in the references section have been broken up into some harvard referenced books and other stuff mostly web pages but some books as well on the committee for skeptical inquiry page with the harvard referenced books being put in a bulleted list in a section titled references and the other stuff in a list auto numbered with etc in a section named notes that's what threw me i'm not used to seeing that done wp gtl does say it is more important to have clarity and consistency in an article than to adhere to any particular system i have plenty of other things on my plate at present so i think i'll drop the matter here