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Extra whitespace
[edit]Hi Guy. Do you have a reason for removing extra vertical whitespace? It does not affect layout of the rendered page. I often insert these when doing other work so that when editing the wikisource, I can quickly find the beginning of the lead text. ~Kvng (talk) 00:02, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Kvng:
It does not affect layout of the rendered page.
If "layout" includes, for example, inter-paragraph spacing, extra vertical whitespace - blank lines between paragraphs - does affect the layout of the rendered page. Compare:
This is the first paragraph.
This is the second paragraph.
- which has one blank line between paragraphs in the source, with
This is the first paragraph.
This is the second paragraph.
- which has two blank lines between paragraphs in the source.
- There are places where blank lines are ignored, but that's not one of them.
- However, the edit in question removed horizontal whitespace. The previous edit appears to have added a single space to a blank line without a comment, which - given the lack of a comment - made it appear to be a gratuitous change. Guy Harris (talk) 19:10, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
- Before we discuss this further, we need to agree on whether these changes affect layout. Please compare before and after your whitespace removal. ~Kvng (talk) 14:01, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Kvng:
Please compare before and after your whitespace removal.
I just popped up two windows with those two versions and looked at them and saw... no difference in the layout with Safari on macOS Tahoe. - What are you seeing, and with what browser on what platform? Guy Harris (talk) 21:52, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- OK, we agree. There is no rendered difference. I'm aware that this is not always the case with vertical whitespace. I don't want to get into a silly edit war over it so I thought I'd ask you about it. In this case it sounds like you were reverting an anonymous editors insertion of this whitespace. I think that generally we should not be making edits for the purpose of adjusting wikitext whitespace. But I wanted you to know that I prefer some whitespace here because it makes the frontmatter wikitext a easier to read and I will sometimes add it when making other edits. ~Kvng (talk) 22:36, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Kvng:
- Before we discuss this further, we need to agree on whether these changes affect layout. Please compare before and after your whitespace removal. ~Kvng (talk) 14:01, 2 July 2026 (UTC)