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'''Lists''' are used to better structure text that is unsuitable as a paragraph.
== General rules ==
* Do not use lists if text is read easily as plain paragraphs.
* Use proper wikimarkup.
* Do not leave blank lines between items in a bulleted or numbered list unless there is a reason to do so, since this causes the Wiki software to interpret each item as beginning a new list.
* 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).
* Use numbers rather than bullets only if:
** a need to refer to the elements by number may arise;
** the sequence of the items is critical; or
** the numbering has some independent meaning.
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
|+Good example
! scope="col" | Wikitext
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" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
|+Bad example
! scope="col" | Wikitext
|}
Similar to the above, use a # symbol to obtain a numbered list:
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! Wikitext
! Appearance