Last modified: 2013-04-15 18:58:28 UTC
Currently, in-body template tags bring a new <p> or <div>, which causes hatnotes ({{otheruses}} {{redirect}}, etc.) to appear on separate paragraphs. Too often enough we see clutter like: >For other uses, see Emotion (disambiguation). >"Emotional" redirects here. For other uses, see Emotional (disambiguation). Where > represents a new paragraph or a newline . Ideally, these should show up simply as one paragraph: :For other uses, see Emotion (disambiguation). "Emotional" redirects here. For other uses, see Emotional (disambiguation). But even showing just newlines like below would be better: :For other uses, see Emotion (disambiguation). :"Emotional" redirects here. For other uses, see Emotional (disambiguation). Keep in mind we are sometimes seeing three or four of these, taking up three or four paragraphs before one even gets to the article. Consolidating hatnotes into one paragraph will also keep hatspam down, as we will pay more attention to what gets included. -S
As far as I see, the situation reported only occurs because the template that's used in both {{otheruses}} and {{redirect}} — {{hatnote}} — includes a <div /> tag that forces the line break and the space to appear; see <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4> for further information. This can be avoided by changing the code of the template, for instance by replacing the <div /> tag with a <span />. This doesn't seem related to MediaWiki itself, so I am closing the report as RESOLVED INVALID; please feel free to reopen if you don't agree with the closure.
