Template:C

Replacing a working link with template:C is not useful. It's completely unnecessary to use that template in the first place, it saves you a few keystrokes and a few bytes in the page source, but adds an unnecessary and slow template transclusion.

Ah. I see. Thank you for explaining.

I take this to mean I should also stop switching out <references/> for {{reflist}}, then, unless it's really necessary?

No, reflist is a real template, but it should only be used when there are lots of references. the references tag is fine when there are just a few.

Okay. Thanks for answering, Nx.

You should have a talk with Ty, then. And happy Christmas, if that's your thing.

It's not. I'm Jewish.

I was addressing Nx

If by that you mean that Ty has been replacing every instance of the references tag with reflist - meh, that's fine too, at least it makes it uniform (reflist makes the text smaller)

okay, cool