Template talk:Spratly possessions
Space lost after separator when entry is unlinked
editI noticed that when this template appears on pages it links to, whatever mechanism is responsible for unlinking the current page entr(y|ies) is corrupting the text slightly (dropping a whitespace character).
The first entry in the |expand-China= section is normally formatted
but on the Cuarteron Reef article, that line displays as
Cuarteron Reef ·Huayang Reef
(Note the lack of whitespace following the dot, in the second example.)
I see that Template:· is used to place the separators, which is coded to precede the dot with and follow it with   (a normal space), a difference that's probably significant. But I don't know enough about the mechanism which does the on-page unlinking, or how it interacts with templates, to debug the lost space problem. The fix may be as simple as adding a space character after each {{·}} in the template code, but I'm feeling out of my depth on this.
ISTR there's a WikiProject or request page for requesting template-coding help from more experienced editors, and if I track it down I'll mention this there. But I wanted to note the bug here first, in case anyone already involved with this template can address the issue. – FeRD_NYC (talk) 23:36, 12 April 2015 (UTC)