[WikiEN-l] [[Template:FA/BeenOnMainPage]]

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/30/06, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> please take a look at this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:FA/BeenOnMainPage&action=history
>
> The template causes pages to become invalid XHTML. (Not in a majorly
> serious way, but still.) I fixed that. Unfortunately, it breaks the CSS
> rules people have put into their user CSS to style it. Thus I was reverted.
>
> What is the proper avenue for this kind of situation? The "normal user"
> will, of course, just think I broke it and revert it, without caring
> about XHTML conformance. The correct way however required for those
> users to fix their CSS. What do I do?
>
> Timwi

Any idea how many users we are talking about?

I just ran [[Wikipedia:Featured articles]] through validator.w3.org
and got 781 errors (to be fair, they're all the same). That just
doesn't feel right.