https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ToBeFree/sandbox2&action=edit&oldid=1015860563 contains two empty lines that probably don't need to be there. The first one is understandable but unnecessary; the second one could have been avoided by indenting with a bullet instead of a description, for consistency and avoiding a gap in the list.
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More annoying: In discussions that consistently use bullet points, the Reply tool does this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ToBeFree/sandbox3&diff=1015861369&oldid=1015861355&diffmode=source
Open as phab:T263902 since Sep 2020
In that last diff, did you reply to the first comment? Or to the last one?
To the first one, resulting in one indentation level
That's what I thought. This is "technically correct" but not what I want. It supports this use case:
Which articles should we edit next? Let's make a list. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
- Apples
- Bananas
- Oranges
- Maybe we shouldn't just edit articles about fruit? Example (talk)
but not the more common use case:
Please vote. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
- Support Example (talk)
- Oppose Another editor (talk)
This should be addressed as part of handling votes.
The first use-case should probably look like this:
Which articles should we edit next? I propose these:
- A
- B
- C
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Sounds good. ~~~~
I think that style is do-able now.
"now" as in "already, without a change"? Probably yes. I was trying to point out a possible flaw in the first example, which is its lack of a correctly indented signature at the end of the message.
My quick test (I pinged you) suggests that you can't get the sig on a separate line at the end right now. This was previously possible (you had to put two blank lines at the end of the box), but it's been changed. However, if you end with any word ("Thanks, ~~~~") or a small character (such as a non-breaking space) then you end up with something similar.
Ah. That does seem to work when manually adding a signature on a separate line at the end. Single newline, not an empty line in between.
*Test
*Test
*Test
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