--- Tomer Chachamu <the.r3m0t(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can anybody explain policy on whitespace?
Specifically:
1) On lists (* and #) should there be spaces after
those stars and hashes?
2) In headings (===Text===) should there be spaces,
as in "=== Text ==="?
3) Should there be blank lines before/after these
headings?
4) Should there be blank lines at the end of
articles, i.e. before and
after interwiki links and category inclusions? This
often causes an
(IMO) unsightly amount of blank space at the end of
an article.
5) When and why were interwiki and category links
moved to one a line?
1) It doesn't matter.
2) It doesn't matter.
3) It doesn't matter.
4) It doesn't matter.
5) It doe... oh :) I'm not sure, but it's been the
usual way for some time now.
Basically, there aren't any hard and fast rules on
these sorts of things, because they get in the way of
what's important (which is writing an encylopedia). If
you want to trim whitespace as you go through, then
that's fine, but making wholesale changes seems like a
lot of effort for very little reward. But there's no
rules against it either :)
A better solution to the excessive space at the bottom
of articles would be a tweak to MediaWiki to supress
the extra "<p><br /></p>" it seems to create in place
of each category link (although this is probably a
long way down the priority for the developers).
-- sjorford
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