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User:SMcCandlish/Template:Sig fix

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Could you please take a moment to update your signature code to use 21st-century HTML? It is presently:

<!-- WRAPPER NEEDED TO ESCAPE "&" -->{{{1}}}
→ {{{1}}}

but should be:

<!-- WRAPPER NEEDED TO ESCAPE "&" -->{{{2}}}
→ {{{2}}}

The <font> element hasn't been valid in HTML in many years. Continuing to use <font> on Wikipedia will make any page in which it's used fail validation, and it adds a tremendous number of pages to our "lint" cleanup lists, plus has the effect of displaying lots of errors to those of us who are using JS to flag pages with invalid markup in them for cleanup (we only need to do the cleanup in actual articles and major projectpages, but there is no way to limit the error-reporting to just those pages).
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