Alas [[Category:Whatever]] eats nearby whitespace.
A shame, as it doesn't need to but it does.
Why can't it just mind its own business, and not tamper with
preceding and following whitespace, if indeed any.

What's the big deal you ask? Well, templates like
[[Category:{{{1}}}]][[:Category:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]<noinclude>...
have no way of restoring those surrounding whitespace conditions,
even with the <noinclude> tacked on before any newline.

Users might start thinking they must now pass the surrounding
whitespace into the template just to protect it.

Same with just [[:Category:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]], only a following space
is preserved, not a preceding one.

Would the UNIX m4 preprocessor gobble whitespace like [[Category... ?

Version: 1.7.x
Severity: minor