Moving on ChrisGualtieri points out that it was I who created  And guess what Within a few months the following was added to MOSDASH Also it is recommended to use templates that provide formatting improvements over plain versions of dashes such as   which inserts an em dash while allowing a line break after it The lesson That at least one of the formatting innovations you tsktsk here is now a standard option for Wikipedia at large Who knows Maybe some of the others will end up in MOS too if theyre not strangled in the cradle in the name of anodyne uniformity There being no opinion expressed on the question in the Discussion section above Im gone ahead and deleted the two types of comments mentioned there unused quote material STARTEND markers since I gather editors find them to have low signaltonoise ratio However Ive restored many of the deleted notes which were typically things like     These are exactly the sort of the material that belongs in hidden notes Ive added cites to the material tagged citeneeded Per the guideline BGwhite pointed to Ive deleted templates from cite templates