Talk:Katrina Avery/@comment-1036724-20121127224732/@comment-4536066-20121128050255

That happens when you copy and paste text from a program or website that has been formatted with text. What that is is CSS (style) coding that applies non-default attributes to the contents of the page that are tagged up. If you read through it, you can pretty easily tell what it means.

The font was changed to an 11-point Calibri font (with lots of arbitrary specifications like the font family and font theme), as well as website organization specs like the language that was being used on the page or program it was copied from.

This can copy in crazy illegible fonts, sizes, margins, padding, opacity, under-the-hood markups, all kinds of garbage that make your article look awful if you don't know what to do with them.

Like Teh Alch said, you can still copy stuff into the wiki editor, but to remove any formatting and tagging from your source, you have to paste it into a generic text editor like Notepad or Wordpad or TextEdit (mac) and then copy it back out of there as clean, plain text. Only then is it safe to paste into the wiki editor, or else to get it out you have to go through and delete all the garbage in your source file.