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The fact that you made four edits to a template transcluded on hundreds of thousands of pages before I rolled them back, then another seven afterward; the fact that your first batch of edits and second batch of edits both involved edits that broke the template; the fact that you didn't notice the breakage yourself the first time, and then that it took you a few tries to fix it; does any of these facts suggest to you that maybe you're mistaken?

Note that there's a significant penalty to editing a very-widely-transcluded template even if you don't break anything.

And if your goal is just to add line breaks and indentation so we can see what the template is doing, then you don't actually need to edit at all, because that sort of presentation doesn't need to be at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:context?action=edit. It could just as easily be at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:CodeCat/Test?action=edit or http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Sandbox?action=edit&oldid=... or even http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:CodeCat/Test directly. As far as I can see, the only reason to make these changes to without testing them is if you really think that they might break it, and you want to see that breakage if they do. And if so, then, well, yes, you think rightly, but that's hardly something to be proud of.

(We all make mistakes, sometimes big ones, and I really don't want to excoriate you for this, but I need you to acknowledge that this was a mistake, because if you really do still think that these edits were just peachy, then I need to nominate you for de-sysopping before you do further damage. And I really don't want to do that, because in general you're a great admin, but repeatedly breaking for no reason really is a really big deal.)