Thread:MJBurrage/@comment-24831261-20140525182027/@comment-23316-20140527190234

I don't see a hatnote tool in the Visual Editor. Are you using the center and italics buttons to apply formatting to hatnotes? If yes, that explains how the encoding gets entered. (the center button uses html paragraphs tags, while the indent button uses a wikimarkup colon)

Which just makes my question, just one of curiosity. Why are hatnotes centered here, rather than indented as on Wikipedia?

I think they are indented on Wikipedia, becasue centering is less obvious when the note is longer than the screen width.