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You're not in trouble, you're not going to get punished in any way for it -- our page How We Do Bans Around Here (which you should read on general principle) lays out exactly what we mods are allowed to ban people for, and it's not on the list. If my tone sounds irritated, it's less to do with you and more to do with me being short on both sleep and coffee, and I apologize for any concern I caused on your part. (I'm also a freelance writer and have a bit of OCD when it comes to the written word, and that doesn't help either.)

It's only if someone is highly resistant to advice on how to stop making the same mistake over and over again that we get into bannable territory, and that's more to protect the wiki than to punish the user, although I'll admit they'll look like the same thing from the user's POV.

And we know, especially for people whose only exposure to wikis is TV Tropes' custom implementation of the antique and obsolete PMWiki engine, it takes a while to get a handle on coding pages. No one gets punished for not knowing everything right away, and we Mods are going to do our best to point you at everything you need to know when you need to know it. Speaking of which...

Our Style Guide -- how we want pages to look and feel
Help:Formatting -- how MediaWiki markup works (quick summary: some of it is like TVT/PMWiki, but a lot of it isn't)

We also use MediaWiki's "template" feature to automate a lot of common features, such as page headers and footers, common banners and headers... Now that I think of it, we should probably set up a list somewhere of what they are and what they do so we can point people at them.

In any case, thanks for your patience with my grumpiness this morning, and we really do look forward to your future contributions.