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I looked into the effects of your edit in diff. Turns out that extra closing </div>
wasn't entirely spurious after all. Have a look at 怨霊, for instance, and then taking that closing tag out again and have another look at the entry, and you'll see that everything after the call to {{bottom}}
gets sucked into a center-aligned collapsible table, while the content that's supposed to be in the table vanishes. But with the "extra" </div>
, that doesn't happen.
Granted, that's pairing {{bottom}}
with {{der-top}}
. But for a while at least, {{bottom}}
was the generic closing template for various bits and bobs, not just {{top2}}
and its ilk, which apparently only have one opening <div>
tag. I don't think that having an extra closing </div>
tag hurts anything, as messy and inelegant as it is. If you have any bot experience, it would be great if you could identify all mismatched uses of {{bottom}}
and replace them appropriately, and then cut out the extra </div>
tag. (I don't have any bot experience or I'd set to that myself.)
Cheers,
Sometimes it does hurt… look at Talk:eumhun, where the archive box ends prematurely because of that extra tag.
I guess I could find all the mismatched {{bottom}}
s, but it will not be quick or easy.