The colon should be italicized too. --Connel MacKenzie 19:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
A colon following a phrase in brackets looks rather odd to me. Is there a precedent for such a construction in any print dictionary or glossary? And italics makes a total of three typographic devices used to set off the sense. w:Bringhurst (book) tells us to "change one parameter at a time."
Would anyone object if maybe we changed this to just italics plus colon? —Michael Z. 05:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Proposal is that {{sense|?}} should categorize in some way, and so should {{checksense}} for the same reason; to have all of these in a single cleanup category. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:46, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
CodeCat's original edit was a good faith attempt to clarify the wording that appears when this template is used in mainspace.
But I agree with DCDuring, that the change is unnecessary. In fact, I think this change significantly detracts from the quality of mainspace entries. What appeared in mainspace was already entirely clear, and this change only adds needless verbiage to what should be the briefest of glosses. The change should be undone. -- · (talk) 04:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
{{sense}} in ====Antonyms==== sections, which is a hint that they probably latently misunderstand it in other sections as well — but I certainly disagree with her re-revert, and especially with her edit-summary "Unexplained revert", as though it were DCDuring's responsibility to defend the status quo rather than CodeCat's responsibility to discuss an edit that she now knew to be controversial. —RuakhTALK 06:13, 23 May 2014 (UTC)