“ Search engine compatibility Search engines, such as Google, do not recognize most letter forms, including ligatures, as the modern English equivalents. For example, Google will not match "tact" and "taƈt". Search engine compatibility is a serious consideration as the inability to find a text using common search engines reduces the accessibility of texts on Wikisource. Because it is most important that users can find the text displayed in the mainspace, lack of search engine compatibility in the pagespace is of less concern. ”

“ Flexibility and future development Templates make it simple to change the display of characters throughout the project and make finding characters easier. In addition, templates can be used to display a different character in the mainspace than in the pagespace, if desired (e.g. {{ls}} displays "s" in the pagespace and "s" in the mainspace) . Finally, templates make it easy to implement technical improvements that allow user preferences or other forms of alternate display, if those become available in the future. ”

“ Phonetically distinct archaic letter forms For phonetically distinct archaic English letter forms (e.g. ð, œ) archaic letter form should generally be displayed by default. A modern equivalent may be displayed by alternate text (e.g. via {{tooltip}}) , if one exists, so long as search engine results are not affected. ”