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Since this is a new article, some restrictions might be useful. But, there's plenty of room for expansion, so no need to be overly protective I think. Since this could easily degrade into entries about disputed usage, I propose (as it stands now) that all entries must:
-- Airborne84 ( talk) 03:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0x0077BE ( talk • contribs)
Is this a "misconception"? The text in the entry indicates that it is an old convention that is now disfavored by "most" style guides, with some exceptions (i.e. monospace fonts).
I would add that it is mostly irrelevant since much of what we write is rendered as HTML and that standard ignores whitespace. I just placed two periods after that sentence and it will look exactly the same. I just placed ten spaces after that period. And forty after the last one.
BTW, I edited the entry to explain this but it was dismissed as "irrelevant". Hardly so, since all that arguing and getting up on a high horse re one vs two spaces is moot for html communication.
This article ( https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/two-spaces-after-a-period?page=1) by one of the authors cited in the refs for this entry has the full story, including the part about html. At no point does that author declare that it is a "misconception" Do the other cites? I don't know and don't have access to them, but under NPOV we editors don't get to call something a "misconception" unless there's some source for that. Is thare? Mr. Swordfish ( talk) 23:20, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
The entry here claims that indenting paragraphs is a "misconception". That seems to contradict the material at Paragraph#Typographical_considerations which implies that some styleguides say you should and some say it is unnecessary.
How do we resolve this, and is there actually any WP:RS that states that this is a misconception? Mr. Swordfish ( talk) 16:07, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
I see a lot of terms like "there's no rule against" or "it's not wrong", but is that because there are no rules/it can't be wrong? Or are there rules? What are these rules? Is there an official list or something? 2601:408:C402:7026:4D97:92C6:FB4B:8460 ( talk) 22:04, 10 December 2023 (UTC)