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Dear SchmuckyTheCat. I read the section "Invisible comments" of the helpfile Help:Whitespace. I think you and Redrose64 are the authors of this section. I wonder why one should avoid spaces between text and comment or comment and text. I do not see anything bad happening when I do not follow your recommendations. You just say "Format the comment to avoid this ...". I do not understand "why". It seems the AutoWikiBrowser's General Fixes implements your recommendations and removes spaces between text and comment resulting in less readable code in the code editor. Can you please enlighten me. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, it appears something in the wiki to html translation the current version of MediaWiki has changed, or maybe it's the CSS on Wikipedia. That doesn't mean it's not still a good practice because the wiki code that runs Wikipedia is used in many other places. We wouldn't want to break the layout of other projects by relaxing previous source normalizations. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 23:54, 24 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

experimenting a little more.

blahblah text text

comment

moretext

Is ok now, and was not before (by memory)

blahblah text text

blank line

comment

blank line

moretext

This creates unwanted whitespace, then and now.

Dear SchuckytheCat, thank you very much for your kind reply. You seem to admit that spaces between text and comment do not greate unwanted whitespace and that there is nothing in the MOS that forbids such spaces, but at the same time you say you do not want to relax "previous source normalizations". Is this particular previous source normalisation prescribed somewhere else? I would feel that the entire section "Invisible comments" should be dropped from the page Help:Whitespace.I feel this warrants a discussion on the page's talk page. Thanks and best regars, Johannes Schade (talk) 19:15, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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