Talk:Non-League football

Giving two spaces after each sentence

Hi would like to understand if there is any particular reason for putting two spaces after sentences in introduction part. Also is it as per the rules of Wikipedia to do so. Stanford113 (talk) 09:21, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

@Stanford113: Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia. Firstly, you will notice that I have amended the formatting of your message, so that it displays correctly. For more information on how to use Talk pages, see WP:TALKPAGE.

Re the question you raise, it was the usual convention when I learned to type using a typewriter, about 40 years ago, to insert double spaces, so I suspect there are many Wikipedia articles and parts of articles which have been written by people who also learned to do it that way. The reason for it was to make it quite clear to a reader that a new sentence was starting. It has now become common practice to put just one space (because it takes so much effort to type in all those extra spaces, just to make things easier for other people!!!). When an editor's inputs to articles are processed for display, the Wikipedia system simply ignores the extra spaces. --Blurryman (talk) 00:06, 9 February 2021 (UTC)