Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/It's too easy to delete citations

In the edit source view, reference citations are so big that new editors aren't likely to delete them by mistake (whether they can edit them successfully is another matter). But in the visual editor it is trivially easy to delete a citation without being aware of what has happened. This might be an issue. Could it be made more difficult to delete citations, perhaps by skipping over them when deleting (so that they can only be removed from within the citation template dialog) or by asking for explicit confirmation when the edit is saved?