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* Use the same grammatical form for all elements in a list, and do not mix sentences and sentence fragments as elements.
* When the elements are complete sentences, each one is formatted with sentence case (its first letter is capitalized) and a final period (full stop).
=== Bulleted lists ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Good example
! scope="col" | Wikitext
! scope="col" | HTML
! scope="col" | Appearance
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| <pre style="margin:0px;">
== Title of list ==
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3
</pre>
| <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict" enclose="pre">
<p><a name="Title_of_list" id="Title_of_list"></a></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Title of list</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>Example 1</li>
<li>Example 2</li>
<li>Example 3</li>
</ul>
</syntaxhighlight>
| style="white-space:nowrap; padding:1em;" | <div style="padding-top:0.5em; padding-bottom:0.17em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; font-size:150%; margin-bottom:0.6em;"> Title of list </div>
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3
|}
As a matter of style, list items should be formatted consistently in either sentence case or lower case. They should not have final punctuation unless they consist of complete sentences.
In particular, '''do not double-space the lines of the list''' by leaving blank lines or extra HTML <nowiki><br></nowiki> tags after them, as in this example:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Bad example
! scope="col" | Wikitext
! scope="col" | HTML
! scope="col" | Appearance
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| <pre style="margin:0px;">
== Title of list ==
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3
</pre>
| <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict" enclose="pre">
<p><a name="Title_of_list" id="Title_of_list"></a></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Title of list</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>Example 1</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Example 2</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Example 3</li>
</ul>
</syntaxhighlight>
| style="white-space:nowrap; padding:1em;" | <div style="padding-top:0.5em; padding-bottom:0.17em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; font-size:150%; margin-bottom:0.6em;"> Title of list </div>
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3
|}
{| class="infobox wikitable" style="margin-left:1em;"
|-
! style="background:#bfffbf;" | A
| <pre style="margin:0px; background:#cfffcf;">
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3
* Example 4
</pre>
|-
! style="background:#ffbfbf;" | B
| <pre style="margin:0px; background:#ffcfcf;">
* Example 1
* Example 2
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]
* Example 3
* Example 4
</pre>
|-
! style="background:#bfffbf;" | C
| <pre style="margin:0px; background:#cfffcf;">
* Example 1
* Example 2
* [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]] Example 3
* Example 4
</pre>
|}
