diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 198b86810..a976db8b0 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ ignore-docstrings=yes
 ignore-imports=no
 
 # Minimum lines number of a similarity.
-min-similarity-lines=4
+min-similarity-lines=15
 
 
 [IMPORTS]
diff --git a/scripts/templater.py b/scripts/templater.py
index 684403d55..991fa575f 100644
--- a/scripts/templater.py
+++ b/scripts/templater.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def set_template(argv):
     name = f"{inspect.stack()[0][3]}"
     log = cli_helpers.setup_logging(user_args, log_name=name)
 
-    log.info("""Running script with args: """)
+    log.info(f"""Running {name} with args: """)
     log.info(f"""{('-' * 70)}""")
     log.info(f"""{('-' * 70)}""")
     for name, val in user_args.__dict__.items():
diff --git a/src/uwtools/j2template.py b/src/uwtools/j2template.py
index 88345c71d..c0e0e8626 100644
--- a/src/uwtools/j2template.py
+++ b/src/uwtools/j2template.py
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ def _load_file(self, template_path):
         Jinja2 Template object
         '''
 
-        self._j2env=Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader(searchpath='/'),
-                               trim_blocks=True,lstrip_blocks=True)
+        self._j2env=Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader(searchpath='/'))
         register_filters(self._j2env)
         return self._j2env.get_template(template_path)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_templater.py b/tests/test_templater.py
index 1167bb4ed..d518ed7f0 100644
--- a/tests/test_templater.py
+++ b/tests/test_templater.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def test_set_template_dryrun(): #pylint: disable=unused-variable
 
     input_file = os.path.join(uwtools_file_base, "fixtures/nml.IN")
     outcome=\
-    """Running script with args:
+    """Running set_template with args:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
         outfile: None
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def test_set_template_listvalues(): #pylint: disable=unused-variable
     input_file = os.path.join(uwtools_file_base, "fixtures/nml.IN")
 
     outcome=\
-    """Running script with args:
+    """Running set_template with args:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
         outfile: None
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def test_set_template_command_line_config(): #pylint: disable=unused-variable
     input_file = os.path.join(uwtools_file_base, "fixtures/nml.IN")
 
     outcome=\
-    """Running script with args:
+    """Running set_template with args:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
         outfile: None
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ def test_set_template_verbosity(): #pylint: disable=unused-variable
 
     outcome=\
     f"""Finished setting up debug file logging in {logfile}
-Running script with args:
+Running set_template with args:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
         outfile: None
diff --git a/tests/test_validators.py b/tests/test_validators.py
index 0dc531e70..52ac163ef 100644
--- a/tests/test_validators.py
+++ b/tests/test_validators.py
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 '''
 Tests for schema validation tool
 '''
+
+# pylint: disable=wrong-import-position,wrong-import-order
+
+import pytest
+jsonschema = pytest.importorskip("jsonschema")
+
 import io
 import json
 from contextlib import redirect_stdout
 import os
 import pathlib
-import jsonschema
-import pytest
+import jsonschema # pylint: disable=import-error
 import yaml