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Reminding others of Wikipedia policies where they have been frequently broken. For example, in many articles, hidden text is necessary to remind editors not to add inappropriate links. On the page Help:Getting started, hidden text is used to let others know not to write their first article on that page.
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Most comments should go on the appropriate Talk page. The format is to surround the hidden text with "<!--" and "-->" and may cover several lines, e.g.: <!-- An example of hidden comments This won't be visible except in "edit" mode. --> Another way to include a comment in the wiki markup uses the {} template, which can be abbreviated as ...
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• Comments shouldn't harass, abuse, or threaten anyone's personal safety or property. • Don't post content that promotes, encourages or incites acts of international or domestic terrorism. • Don't post profanity, obscenities, abusive language, or otherwise objectionable content.
Hidden text is now officially obsolete. Users of WP:VisualEditor will never see it. Therefore it is impossible to embed important directions to all classes of editors in the wikitext. This is a sad state of affairs. The people who need to see hidden comments the most are the ones using VisualEditor. Elizium23 16:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
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If article body contains contents based on reliable as well as unreliable sources, is the use of hidden comment to put inappropriate sources out of the view? I am seeing this being done in some articles. This seems like the use of article space as a sandbox Graywalls 00:11, 23 January 2024 (UTC)