https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59849
--- Comment #5 from Spinningspark <[email protected]> --- > TLDR: The colon does *not* actually mean "indent". Ok, the colon does not mean indent. However, I have had an account on English Wikipedia for seven years, have made 50,000 edits in that time (which must include tens of thousands of colons) but this is the first I have heard of it. We have a page (WP:INDENT) explaining how to use colons for indenting, MOS:MATH requires it for display formulae, and WP:TALK suggests that it may be disruptive to deliberately not use colons. On none of those pages is it explained that, actually, colon does not really mean indent. I am almost certain that the vast majority of editors do not know this. There are probably hundreds of thousands of articles that use colons. It is simply not going to be acceptable for VE to chew up articles because it does not "like" the markup used by editors and established for many years. A less disruptive way forward would be to make the colon actually mean indent. Definition lists are usually achieved with templates. The few that are not are going to be a much smaller number of pages that need fixing and can easily be found by extracting a list of pages from the database with semicolons in lines beginning with colons. A semi-automated bot could then go through them. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
