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A table of contents would be nice on the article. I don't see any magic word called directly in the article to suppress the ToC, which would be a silly thing to do anyway, so either it's some kind of extremely arcane technical problem or something weird on a template. Cremastra (talk) 00:34, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's something very funny going on. If I preview the page with __FORCETOC__ in the relevant spot, exactly nothing happens. When I view the page logged out and in Vector2022, I see the ToC – but not in Vector 2010. Logged in, the ToC shows in Vector2022 but not my default skin of v2010, nor in monobook or timeless. Cremastra (talk) 00:40, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is in {{TopicTOC-History}}. Cremastra (talk) 00:43, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

[1]. Cremastra (talk) 00:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Size of the page

Congrats for the article, folks! One suggestion: the Citations section appears in one column for me and I think this is making the page too long. Perhaps making it a double or even three column would make it more friendly for desktop users. LuanSP (talk) 10:34, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is shown for me in two columns, but this may depend on your display device. I set the column width explicitly to 30em now, which is the same value used for the sources section below to ensure consistency. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:04, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]