gareth.rees wrote:

Any chance of this being fixed? It affects hundreds of articles. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/
index.php?
title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life&curid=1272975&diff=57416194&oldid=57415216
for a complaint.

Will take a look at this while I'm knee-deep in parser guts...

gareth.rees wrote:

Thank you.

The problem appears to be that the taxobox template uses a bogus
inner nested table that, when it comes down to it, looks like this:

{|
[[Cannabaceae]] ([[hemp]] family)

Notice that there's no | to mark the text as being in a
table cell. The current wikitable parser is very lax about
this sort of thing, and renders it to bad HTML, something like:

HTML Tidy then tries to clean up the code; it notices the
inline text illegally placed into a <table> directly, and
moves it to a paragraph outside the table:

Tidy normalizes this to:
<p><a href="/oneseven/index.php?title=Cannabaceae" title="Cannabaceae">Cannabaceae</a>(<a
href="/oneseven/index.php?title=Hemp" title="Hemp">hemp</a>family)</p>

Mysteriously it also removes the whitespace at the edge
of the link tags, but the construct is wrong to begin with
so it can't be faulted too much. :)

I've corrected the template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Taxobox&diff=57684420&oldid=56008320

stacey.nj wrote:

Brion, the change you made to the taxobox has made additional problems. If the
subdivision part of the box contains a bulleted list, the first asterisk does
not get wikified into a bullt. If the subdivision part contains a break-line
list, there is a gap between the first and second lines. See [[lemur]] and
[[Cheirogaleidae]] for examples respectively. - UtherSRG

Then you'll need to fix those uses.