That's the issues with tildes. Hard to count.

If you put three tildes, it results in this: EmpyrealInvective (talk) (no time stamp)

Four nets you this: EmpyrealInvective (talk) 06:26, December 8, 2016 (UTC) (time stamp included)

And five is a monstrosity of this: 06:26, December 8, 2016 (UTC) (only time stamp)

It's easy to miscount and end up with something you didn't intend for.

Oh my gosh seriously?! Thank god you're here, Emp! No but for real, it's not the tilde count. I put four tildes into the source mode and it then publishes as, well, four tildes.

We have been overhauling the wiki so it might be that, but since it doesn't seem like a lot of people are having the issue, it's possible that you may just need to clear your cache (that being said, I'm not a compooter expert. I just go with the issues that it could be) to fix it. In the past, some users were randomly clicking on stories and they'd get a blank page despite the fact that the story is there in the editor mode. Have a good one.

This isn't an answer, but I have seen this before. It only seems to happen on applications and the nominations page. I've never seen it anywhere else. I'm pretty sure there's nothing to do except try what Emp suggested and clear your cache, but I don't think that's the issue.