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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,

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig05:58, 12 April 2014

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.

Keφr06:59, 12 April 2014

Aha. Thanks for that, hadn't seen such cases. Well then, I guess there's nothing for it but to try to find all the mismatches. I'll do what I can for now. Actually, let me also ping @CodeCat -- would MewBot (talkcontribs) be a good bot for finding mismatched uses of {{bottom}}?

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig19:06, 12 April 2014

Actually, I just saw my watchlist and realized that someone called Buttermilch (talkcontribs) has already done this. Then I found that Buttermilch is Kephir (talkcontribs). Thanks, Keφr!

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig19:32, 12 April 2014