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The template {{infobox cocktail}} automatically forces a bulleted list for its main-alcohol parameters. Bulleted lists in infoboxes aren't unheard-of, though rare. However, that template forces a bullet even for single entrants, making the oxymoronic single-item list. Given there is no actual list created, should that template be invoking list markup for single variables? — Fourthords | =Λ= |22:27, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, easy-peasy. In the infobox's implementation at mojito, there's a bulleted list with one item (rum). Given how the bulleted-list markup interacts with other variables like scrapers, screen readers, and more, are there any technical, grammatical, accessibility, or stylistic problems caused by a 'list' that then only has one entrant? — Fourthords | =Λ= |06:00, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I agree that looks odd. I'd say it should just be a plain wikilink in such a case, not a list. But ultimately you'll have to discuss that with the template authors. Gawaon (talk) 06:18, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fixing that is a simple #if test to check for multiple parameter values. And it should probably use an unbulleted list, since bulleted ones are unusual in infoboxes and waste space in them. The more general ingredients list lower in the i'box might sensibly use a bullet list, but it could be CSS kerned to waste less horizontal space. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 00:28, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Many Wikipedia articles have a title that begins with "Comparison of ...".
Is there a Wikipedia policy or guideline that specifically discusses such comparison articles?
I hoped to find such a discussion when I went to WP:Comparison,
but that currently redirects to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists,
which only mentions the word "comparison" once, and even then it's not referring to comparison articles.
Redrose64, that sounds like good advice that *should* be in a Wikipedia policy or guideline that discusses comparison articles -- and perhaps already is. Similarly, I think I've read somewhere that: comparison articles should cite sources that actually compare things, and if no such sources can be found, then a stand-alone "comparison article" likely doesn't meet Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Notability guideline (but the same information may be OK as a subsection of the topic article).
Alas, I've been unable remember where I read that, hence the original question.
To answer your literal question: I'm often editing articles in the Category:Software comparisons category, which generally *do* already have sources doing the comparing.
Ost316 is making many edits like this one, claiming that bold headers are a MOS-related improvement over semicolon and asterisk markup. The semicolon markup appears to me to conform with MOS:DEFLIST's description of name-value or topic-value pairs, but I will defer to the experts here. The editor appears to have made hundreds of these edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:04, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A definition list (MOS:DEFLIST) is a ; line followed by one or more : lines, not by * list items. So Ost316 is certainly right that the old syntax they are fixing is not proper deflist syntax and likely produces invalid HTML. Gawaon (talk) 06:17, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are nonzero infobox situations where I'd just like to separate a bulleted list with headers thusly, even after slimming it down as appropriate. Unno. Remsense ‥ 论07:41, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So I've just done a rudimentary bit of brainstorming, and I quickly realized this is a really easy—seemingly not previously addressed—itch to scratch. Behold, {{Bulleted dl}}:
Due to Conversations about Important Things entering its third year, I am exploring the idea of converting the list of topics from a table to a list, because most of the entries do not have a description. I wish to ask what format could I employ, taking into account the use of colons, dashes, and parentheses in the topic names? --Minoa (talk) 17:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Differences between lists about people
When I read some lists of people. I saw we can find differences among lists.
Nope. This is clearly something that should be decided on a per-case basis based on what the editors decide is best for the given topic and situation. That's how our Manual of Style works in general. The point is to alleviate confusion and reduce friction, not impose uniformity for its own sake. Remsense ‥ 论05:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is on a per-case basis (Understandable because Wikipedia is a big project and it would be impossible to manage all of that easily).
Therefore , the goal of the manual is not to impose uniformity but to alleviate confusion and reduce friction and live with disparities in absence of uniformity.
