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	It appears to be impossible to get the ~~visual~~ Editor to abide by the wiki's [[att:Style Guide\|Style Guide]] -- it consistently strips out whitespace that we want left intact for readability purposes, and it alters existing crosslinks so that they are longer than they need to be. This makes it difficult to see what content has actually been changed in a page edit and which changes are things that the Visual Editor code decided to do without being told.		It appears to be impossible to get the Visual Editor to abide by the wiki's [[att:Style Guide\|Style Guide]] -- it consistently strips out whitespace that we want left intact for readability purposes, and it alters existing crosslinks so that they are longer than they need to be. This makes it difficult to see what content has actually been changed in a page edit and which changes are things that the Visual Editor code decided to do without being told.

	The moderation team spends a non-trivial amount of time fixing what the Visual Editor breaks - time that could be devoted to other tasks.		The moderation team spends a non-trivial amount of time fixing what the Visual Editor breaks - time that could be devoted to other tasks.