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<br> The blanking (erasing) of your entire user page isn't going to solve your problems, or for that matter, answer the questions raised here. So far, you've not addressed any of the concerns raised here by me or others who posted disagreements and questions about your actions and behavior. All our actions are accountable. Please try to make an effort to address the concerns raised here, and also (at least) try to answer the queries posted here. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 16:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
== Edits to <nowiki>pre</nowiki> blocks in output sections ==
Could you please stop replacing existing markup like this:
<pre>
{{out}}
<pre>
… program output here …
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
<­/pre>
</pre>
with:
<pre>
{{out}}
… program output here …
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
</pre>
(avoiding <nowiki><pre></nowiki> by using leading space wiki formatting)
Although in some respects they are just different ways of doing the same thing,
the former is used here for a reason.
Namely, it allows trivial cut-n-paste of program output without further modifications
(unless it happens to contain &; or <nowiki></pre></nowiki>).
Since the HTML produced by both is the same there is no benefit to avoiding <nowiki><pre></nowiki>.
However, since doing so makes it more difficult to update program output in the future, it does have a negative impact.
In general, making changes to ''existing'' markup that has no effect on the semantics of the HTML output should be avoided
(unless perhaps it's while making other useful changes ''to the same text'').
This would include some recent changes you've made to existing text changing only white space.
(Of course, things like changing "'''Output:'''" to "<nowiki>{{out}}</nowiki>" are different and fine since even if they currently produce the same output the template might change in the future.)
Thank you. —[[User:Dchapes|Dchapes]] ([[User talk:Dchapes|talk]]) 17:40, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
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