Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-188432-20120827220853/@comment-188432-20120828143725

Your missing one element from your equation that you can't reproduce: what's in my Special:Preferences line.

As you can see at tardis:User talk:Eladkse, I currently have a solution which works. But the old version can never work, because, again, the span tags aren't in a template. They are — well, were — a literal part of the Special:Preferences line. Thus, if you chage the template, the span tag still remains.

Clean up on a massive scale is necessary.