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Reverted undiscussed, untested modifications. This is the site's main page, Nat. Please use a sandbox to experiment and demonstrate proposed changes.
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I've tested them on different wiki's and this (1) reduces the size of the page (2) organizes it much better (3) it simplifies the look of the edit page
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