User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-4189499-20141002011135/@comment-4189499-20141002011802

Another problem with not allowing wikitext: we use referencing templates on our wiki to easily standardise reference formatting as well as add a few extra goodies to a page such as categories. They should in theory be added to all pages at least once, sometimes multiple times, and it's much easier to just write " " than it is to go through the whole mess which is getting templates onto a page in VisualEditor style, especially as they go in line and should flow naturally with the surrounding text as people write. Considering it's part of our policy that users use these templates, you are just making life harder on new users and IPs who are stuck with this new editor, and we have a large number of IP editors on our wiki.