Template talk:Cleanup HTML

Example of how to cleanup bulleted lists

[1]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed display bug

Dropping a note here for the record. Just fixed a bug [2] [3] when using this template within {{Multiple issues}}.

Formerly, it would display on three lines, each with a bullet point. Here's a snapshot of what I'm talking about: the first box is substituted and shows the issue. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 18:38, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do I delete the template when I fix the issue?

I've spent about 20 minutes hunting for an answer but can't seem to find it. I cleaned up the HTML in an article that was tagged. Do I need to delete the template or will that happen automatically with a bot? PopularOutcast ^talk2me 23:06, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you can delete the tag. I have some scripts that detect articles with unwanted HTML, so if you missed something the tag will get re-added. But as far as I know there is no one looking for articles that are already fixed and need to have the tag removed. (As of January 2019, there were actually no tagged articles, presumably because the tagged ones had been fixed.) -- Beland (talk) 17:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is this template desirable?

I cannot see a list of non-deprecated HTML tags in Help:Wikitext examples, so this template exhorts me to adhere to rules which I cannot find.

More generally, is it worth imposing a minor stylistic comment on the attention of readers consulting an encyclopedia? If anyone feels that an article is written in a bad markup style, they can always say so in the talk page. Colin.champion (talk) 12:39, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Colin.champion: Hmm, good point. I just updated the instructions to point to another page that I think has a clearer list. It seems like actually all HTML has some wikitext equivalent, even if that's only a template that applies the tags. But some HTML is tolerated more than others. I recently put this tag on a large number of articles, and all of them have some tag which is strongly deprecated. After some confusion I've started leaving comments on individual articles pointing out which tags are unwanted, though some early articles just have a ton. Is there a specific article I can take a look at for you and figure out what needs to be changed? I also changed the template text to encourage editors to leave me a note if that's unclear. I was trying to add a parameter so that this information shows up as part of the template message, but it uses complicated syntax and I couldn't easily find a way to do that. @Magioladitis: or anyone else, any ideas?

There are definitely pros and cons to this sort of tagging, a big pro being that gets the attention of editors interested in the article and for generally already-tidy articles greatly decreases the time it take to make repairs. But this tag often appears on generally untidy, younger articles that haven't been wikified yet. Apparently it's been used by Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify since 2010, and there are lots of similar tags that put articles somewhere under Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify for relatively minor or major issues. Maybe with better instructions we can just quickly resolve these problems and be done with the question, but I'm also open to a different workflow if the WikiProject wants to change that. -- Beland (talk) 17:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]