Problem

The bottom of https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/editing (just below the "What is a web book?" section, immediately above the History panel) renders a block of broken text. It is a leftover set of markdown footnote / reference-link definitions — [23]: through [32]: — that are printed as visible raw text and links instead of being collapsed into invisible reference definitions. Inline markup inside the block also leaks through as literal text.

What renders incorrectly

All of these are localized to that one trailing block (the rest of the page is fine):

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/editing
2. Scroll to the bottom of the article, after the "What is a web book?" section and just above the History panel.
3. Observe the block of [23]: <url> <br /> [24]: <url> … rendered as visible junk.

Likely cause

This help page is an Infogami wiki page (history shows it as "Copy from /help/faq/editing"). Its source contains an orphaned block of markdown reference-link / footnote definitions — citation cruft, likely from a copy/import. Open Library's markdown renderer is not treating these as invisible link reference definitions, so they print as visible text, and embedded <br /> separators are HTML-escaped and shown literally.

Suggested fix

1. Remove the orphaned reference-definition / footnote block from the page source.
2. Investigate why these markdown reference definitions render visibly as text rather than being parsed as link reference definitions.

Environment: openlibrary.org production · observed 2026-06-30