Last modified: 2005-03-05 02:04:28 UTC
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AVotes_for_deletion&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion The Vfd page has many of the following errors: Line (take your pick), column 26: ID "vfd" already defined <div class="metadata" id="vfd" style= An "id" is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a document it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a hock for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify exactly one element).
It turns out this element was being set in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Vfd_top, which is used in archived VfD discussions. I'm not sure why it was there, but it was breaking because multiple archived discussions were being included on one page, thus creating multiple divs with the same id. Thinking it would probably do no harm, I removed the offending attribute; unfortunately, the template was inserted with {{subst:}}, so the changes haven't had an immediate effect, but future uses of it shouldn't trigger the problem. Of course, if there *was* a good reason it was there, someone may add it back in, in which case we may just have to put up with the errors for the sake of that purpose.
