footnote begins with "see for the following"

You made me curious, and I’m now more convinced than ever that it’s not a convention and not actually English.

The TandF link you gave is written by a German guy. Going through the (long!) revision history of the Wikipedia articles, it seems two notes have been added with that wording (one since removed again), both by user Olaf Simons, who’s also German. The only other places I could find it used at all are three articles (one, two, three) which are also all written by Germans.

So overall, this looks very much like a Germanism, although I’m not sure what German phrase could be behind it – sehe für das folgend (or whatever exactly proper German grammar would dictate) doesn’t sound to me like it makes more sense than its English counterpart. Though I may be wrong about that; my German isn’t particularly good.