User blog comment:BertH/Technical Update: October 9, 2012/@comment-166269-20121010044124/@comment-166269-20121010071215

Yes, see w:c:yugioh:Template:Negref status.

I think I've heard that said before, though I don't think a dev's actually confirmed it yet. If it is true, what other options do we have? We can sort of cut it with just ParserFunctions and String Functions, but that's not a perfect solution since Cite.php does weird things in relation to the parser.