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Lists are prone to suffering from unclear criteria or a non-neutral point of view, which may actually be the same problem. Examples include List of exploitative companies, List of authoritarian leaders, and even List of famous Brazilian people. (Change "famous" in the last example to "notable," and the problem goes away, since Wikipedia has ...
Produces an HTML list that can be collapsed Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Title title The list's title (Always in view beside the list's [show/hide] link). String suggested Horizontal list hlist Use value 'on' or 'true' to produce a horizontal rather than vertical list Suggested values on true ...
An "image" in the form of a table is much more convenient to edit than an uploaded image. If all the cells in a row are empty the cells still show up. If the header cell is also empty for that row all the cells show up, but they are narrow. That can be fixed with a simple <br> in one of the cells. That is what is done here:
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Using images with lists requires some care. For infoboxes, a bulleted list can be converted to unbulleted or horizontal style with simple templates, to suppress both the large bullets and the indentation. Do not double-space the lines of the list by leaving blank lines after them. Doing this breaks the list into multiple lists, defeating the ...
Cut cells into parts: Instead of trying to make a super-cell that spans rows/columns, split it into smaller cells while leaving some cells intentionally empty. Use a non-breaking space with or {} in empty cells to maintain the table structure. Custom CSS styling: Override the wikitable class defaults by explicitly specifying:
Title of list: example 1, example 2, example 3 This style requires less space on the page, and is preferred if there are only a few entries in the list, it can be read easily, and a direct edit point is not required. The list items should start with a lowercase letter unless they are proper nouns. See also WP:HLIST.
This template uses list-style-image: none to suppress MedaWiki's auto-generated blue bullet image, and list-style-type: none to prevent the auto-generation of the default HTML bullet, which is not copy-pasteable either, then replaces them with a copy-pasteable (and scaleable!) text bullet generated by the {{}} meta-template.