Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-27104094-20171125215702/@comment-27713488-20180104023700

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not unilaterally declaring any guidelines without waiting for others to comment. Also, my proposal was weaker than that - I was saying we could make a guideline for "don't use ≥ and ≤" (and maybe ban em-dashes while we're at it?). I'm unwilling to insist that people use the HTML entities because it's a needless hassle for anyone who hasn't got them memorized.

If Wikia screws things up, then they screw things up. But there are all kinds of ways Wikia could screw things up, and being ultracautious about this particular one strikes me as not worthwhile. Especially since the most common failure mode I see is to replace with strings like " & g t ; ", which is really obviously not right and is easily fixed with find+replace.