Template:Block bug documentation

If the block-formatted content begins with a list (or any other wikimarkup that is dependent upon a specific markup character being at the beginning of a line) then due to a bug in MediaWiki, a  must exist before the list (or whatever) starts. Compare: To embed a table in block markup like this, the block template's content parameter must be named or numbered and include the self-closing noinclude – as in  – then every   character in the table markup must be escaped with. An alternative is to use explicit HTML