https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671

--- Comment #57 from Michael Zajac <[email protected]> 2010-07-28 23:56:58 CDT 
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(In reply to comment #56)
> Aryeh, in Comment #52:
> >> Definitely proper in HTML5
> >>  http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/address.html
> >
> > Nope, definitely improper, see above.  It represents contact info for the
> > <body> or <article> it's in, not arbitrary contact info.
> 
> You quoted too selectively. The rest of it is: "If an address element applies
> to a section of a document, then it represents contact information for that
> section only."  I.e., the element (and I agree it's an odd one) represents
> attribution, not arbitrary contact information, but it's scope is actually
> undefined (it *defaults* to the whole document, but can be just a "section",
> and the interpretation of that term is left open). 

I think the spec must have changed since that document was updated. In the
latest version, it can only apply to an article or body element:

> The address element represents the contact information for its nearest 
> article or body element ancestor. 

And the rules for determining the scope are specific.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-address-element

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