User talk:79.19.11.113

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Happy editing! HopsonRoad (talk) 13:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whitespace changes and other non-displaying modifications to page source[edit]

Hi, and thanks for the effort you've put into cleaning up various articles recently, it's appreciated! Could explain though, how and why you are changing spaces and blank lines in talk page and article sources, such as these edits: Special:Diff/867335535/prev, Special:Diff/867338220/prev, Special:Diff/867332664/prev. Are you using an automated tool?

I'd like to ask you kindly to consider not making such changes. The whitespace after section headers and surrounding their titles are optional, and make no difference to the rendered output. The same for spaces before list items, see Help talk:List#Spacing and bullets. Blank lines after new section headers are added automatically on talk pages by the Wikimedia software, and by bots who leave messages on talk pages. Going through an entire page and removing them makes diffs much harder to read, because when you compare an earlier version of the page, instead of seeing just the parts that have changed, you have to scroll through the entire page to find the actual differences. Edits that consist solely of mass and unnecessary changes to non-displaying whitespace may be seen by some editors as disruptive for that reason. I've noticed too, that you are changing template names to remove capitalization: Special:Diff/867322242/prev, could you also explain why that is? In addition to causing the same problem I described above, unnecessary edits may waste the time of people who have pages on their watchlists, and/or who check edits for vandalism. Please let me know what you think, thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 09:48, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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