Thread:User talk:Parent5446/Whitespace/reply

That policy has been on the coding conventions page for many months. Myself and many other reviewers have been actively enforcing it on many patches. The entire MediaWiki codebase (except for third party libraries) is compliant with the policy. It would be a big stretch to say that the current consensus is to leave trailing whitespace in.

Somebody started a discussion on the MW:CC talk page, to which I added my POV on why it should stay the way it was. Nobody responded to that discussion, so I simply added it back. If Tim wants to actually justify his reasoning for changing a long-standing development policy, or at the very least announce it when it happens, then so be it. But silently changing coding conventions just because somebody -1's your patch because of it is not a productive workflow.