Help talk:List

message: Is there a way to create a list that is numbered as an outline?  The list below is formatted how I'd like it (but not automatically numbered):
:1. element 1 level 1
::1.1. subelement 1 level 2
::1.2. subelement 2 level 2
:::1.2.1. subsubelement 1 level 3
::1.3. subelement 3 level 2
:2. element 2 level 1
etc.
I know how to do a general list, but that only gives me:
# element 1 level 1
## subelement 1 level 2
## subelement 2 level 2
### subsubelement 1 level 3
## subelement 3 level 2
# element 2 level 1
I know that the table of contents does this automatically, and if the user has the automatic numbering preference enabled, the numbers will appear if each entry is defined as a section heading, but I couldn't find a way to force the numbering to show up either.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
:--Rkausch (talk) 16:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outline Numbered List 

message: Is there any way to make a list that uses abc… as bullets instead of numbers or bullets? Without using HTML, i.e: . -- Henriok (talk) 10:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  alphabetically 

message: Is there a way to make a numbered list within a table, to create something like below?
1.	Red 	10,000,000
2.	Blue	9,000,000
Someone the Person (talk) 22:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: There is no hit on this page for the word "alphabetical". A list should be ordered by date (if particularly significant) or in alphabetical order. Is this not previously considered? ~ R.T.G 18:22, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See Template:Ordered list which can do various types of ordered lists including alphabetical lists.  -- 109.77.223.109 (talk) 04:24, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetical 

message: From Help:List#Paragraphs_in_lists, is not clear if it's possible, when a list item has more than one paragraph, to avoid the paragraph change to break the item and the list as well. Starting the paragraphs after the first with ":" instead of "*", gives a different indentation than the first paragraph. Example were is needed: List_of_plagiarism_controversies#Literature.--Sum (talk) 11:57, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avoiding paragraphs breaking bullet points? 

message: I've created a bulleted list and now I'd like to link each bullet topic with its corresponding section in the article. How can I do this? Thanks!
Scfavrot (talk) 20:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:ANCHOR. To create a link to section "Xyz" of article "Abc", the syntax is Abc#Xyz. To make that look nicer, use a piped link, reader-friendly text goes here. Is that what you have in mind? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:11, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Question: Linking a list to topics in the article

message: Is anyone up for writing a section about the new horizontal lists? I'm not much of a documenter myself.  — Edokter (talk) —  22:26, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horizontal lists 

message: VitaliyFilippov (talk) 16:31, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What piece of code provides <nowiki>#<li value="9"></nowiki> syntax (removing empty list elements)? 

message: List of Brock University people says it includes notable alumni, but it has only 25 bluelinked names who have their own Wikipedia articles, and about 52 names with no article linked. Some likely would satisfy WP:BIO, but should such a list include mostly names without articles? Is it appropriate to leave them in if some claim to fame is mentioned for them? In lists of "people from a town" the non-bluelink names are typically removed. Edison (talk) 22:03, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not the right place to ask this; this page of for technical list issues.  — Edokter (talk) —  22:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Suggestions as to what the correct forum is? Something beyond "GO AWAY!" would be helpful in improving Wikipedia. Edison (talk) 22:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Notability is determined by the list editors, so ask on the article talk page. At List of Eagle Scouts we decided that all entries must have an article- this has cut down on the interminable discussions over whether someone is notable. Other lists just require a citation. --  Gadget850 talk 22:41, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Alumni of unestablished notability listed for a college

message: is there a way to insert a template without breaking the numbered list order?
Example:
; Steps:
# step 1
# step 2
#* step 2.1
# step 3
#: 
# step 4
# step 5
which shows up as:
;Steps:
# step 1
# step 2
#* step 2.1
# step 3
#: 
# step 4
# step 5
instead of:
;Steps:
# step 1
# step 2
#* step 2.1
# step 3
#: 
# step 4
# step 5
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.106.197.114 (talk) 14:59, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: see WP:LISTGAP. Frietjes (talk) 15:20, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  template breaking number list 

message: A couple days ago, I wrote a new section concerning (in part) the effects of getting the order wrong in nested list markup—an error that I routinely see from experienced editors on discussion pages. For instance, this is wrong:
# ...
:# ...
*:# ...
As is this:
* ...
:* ...
::* ...
The portions of my contribution concerning this were reverted because ; where is this common error discussed? And is there something we can do to increase its visibility? Also, the same edit summary claims that  which I don’t believe is the case. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 02:22, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backwards markup 

message: I've done some brief searching but haven't found a more appropriate place to mention this. The current svg used for bullet points (list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A)) doesn't scale well.
I use a high-res monitor, and so I usually have Wikipedia zoomed to 200%. At that zoom level, the bullet looks like a period, so the bullet list entries look like:
  . Some element
  . Some other element
—192.225.213.20 (talk) 22:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVG Bullet (as of 2016-02-10) doesn't scale properly with text size 

message: The examples all seem to place a space between between the asterisk and first word in a list entry, and AutoEd adds them if they're not there, but is it actually incorrect to not insert a space (as in *Skyscrapers)? I know the bullets will render with an appropriate space either way. I ask because an editor has systematically removed the spaces from certain articles, and this could be an endless back and forth if only one way is "correct".— TAnthonyTalk 19:13, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Both are correct. Some will find that the space makes lists easier to read (while editing). Some automated tools usually add a space for readability. But one shouldn't add/remove spaces wholesale by hand. -- User:Edokter  19:30, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 20:59, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Spacing and bullets

message: Using the same bullet character for elements and subelements doesn't look very professional.  Using an en dash for subelements is an improvement.  It can be done like this:
but is there a better way?  (The method above doens't provide correct hanging indent when words wrap to the next line.)  GPS Pilot (talk) 21:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replace standard bullet with another character or symbol? 

message: Is there a preference for one of the two? --NBarto (talk) 19:53, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question: Two line breaks before a list 

message: Please see: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lists#Overly long list items
Gist: Add brief advice about what to do about excessively large items in lists, to either WP:Manual of Style/Lists or WP:Summary style.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal on overly long entries in lists 

message: Can a list item be text containing a preformatted block?  The objective is to make a list of instructions constituting a procedure to install software.  Some of the instructions should include small blocks of code. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 01:03, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preformatted block in text in a list item 

message: Please see: Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists#RfC about redirects to categories — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:49, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on permitting "List of foo" mainspace titles to redirect to categories instead 

message: Could someone please get me going on number this list with # signs instead of typing in the actual numbers? If something is added or deleted, then the # signs keep the numbers in order. I have tried so many things before requesting help here. Thank you--Wyn.junior (talk) 18:46, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting help 

message: I need to make a list with headings or categories. I want the items of the list counted, but not the categories. I know how to do this for lists, except for a start. It seems that the first item in a list gets numbered even when I use the semicolon to indicate that I do not want this.
See the example at :meta:Wiki99/agriculture or this portion here
#;
#
#
#;Plant food crops
#
#
#;livestock
#
#
Note that item 1 gets a number, when I do not want this. The subsequent list headings get no numbers, which is correct. There seems to be a coding difference for first items. Does anyone know how I should bypass this? If anyone reads this, checks it out, and does not know what to do, can you post here to say that you understand but do not have advice? Thanks.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omit first number in list 

message: I'm not sure if this is the best place to make this inquiry, but here goes... We're dealing with a list of Founding Fathers, composed of more than 150 names, most of them members of the Continental Congress, and are referred to as such because they were involved in the drafting and debates involving documents like the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Association and the U.S. Constitution. Since there are many sources that refer to the Continental Congress members and/or major revolutionary leaders, as those who were involved in the founding process, or as Founding Fathers, which actually is a modern figure of speech, do we still need to provide a specific citation that spells out that exact phrase for every individual in the list? Or would it suffice to provide general sourcing which explicitly outlines the involvements of the Continental Congress as a whole, in the drafting, debates, signing, all involved in the founding. i.e.Must we provide a source that says Founding Father, verbatim, for every one of the 150 names? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:50, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations in a list

message: See Talk:List of coups and coup attempts#RFC: How should we deal with alleged coups and alleged coup attempts?. Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:31, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC about properly making a list of coups

message: Partially copied from Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor#Possible issue with Visual Editor
I know that there are limitations with Visual Editor but I've started to notice it acting weird sometimes. If imputing bullet points manually in VE, users can create multiple different bullet "charts" which don't merge into a single "chart" (Example of how it looks). I'm not 100% on this and it may have been down to a mistake on my behalf, but nevertheless, I have fixed all the ones affected in source mode. DiscoA340 (talk) 14:22, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Issue with Visual Editor