At 02:25 PM 10/08/02 -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:15 am, Jan Hidders wrote:
When people see lots of nested tags such as on
http://www.wikipedia.com/w/wiki.phtml?title=Duesseldorf&oldid=131461
they are not likely to add anything to it.
Yes, I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the markup in edit mode. It was very discouraging and I just went on (and everyone nows I am guilty of using and promoting tables to present list-like data).
I, too, am a table nut; I love tables, all shapes, all sizes, all colors. But I do my best to make my table code _elegant_, and I try to keep it separate from the text part of the article as if it were a type of image object. I hope that whatever happens, the ability to use genuine HTML table markup (or something equivalent to it) won't be removed from Wikipedia; when it's used appropriately, it can be pretty easy to work with.