Thread:FishTank/@comment-16461120-20170216035158/@comment-16461120-20170220225747

FishTank wrote: See if what I just did helps with that, or hurts. I'd tried simply removing it like that before, but unfortunately that's probably worse, because then it doesn't have even a single space when used for it's primary function with an embedded article link now; meanwhile with the additional non-breaking space coded in it could be worked around simply by not applying spaces manually when transcluding, most people just would rather not change the habits of what they're used to do, in part because being able to space between the the templates is easier on the eyes than a single line of lots of code.

To explain it another way, people are used to this:

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...but with the change in green text generation, they'd now have to..

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...to avoid the illusion of a double space.

While removing the ''' .. ' ' ''' resolves the subsequent illusion of a double space, it also removes any spacing between the link and the primary green text, so it would be a different problem then, but I think I may be able to combine everyone's brainstorming, so give me a moment to see if an idea I just had might work.