On 2 May 2011 13:09, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Maury Markowitz
> <maury.markow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Editors do this all the time anyway. Typically using automated tools
>> so they don't have to do any actual work. Surely someone here has had
>> to wade through someone changing every REF to that bag of hammers CITE
>> tag.
>>
> Sure, but those aren't typically mixed with "real" changes in the same
> edit. That's what was hard: spotting the actual changes in the midst
> of all the normalization noise.

The normalisation only really needs to happen once, though. There may
be a few little bits where people have made wikitext edits since the
last WYSIWYG edit, but the whole article will only need to be
normalised the first time there is a WYSIWYG edit.

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