Editing Encyclopedia:Manual of Style (section)

==Bulleted and numbered lists==
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*Do not use lists if a passage is read easily as plain paragraphs.
*Use proper wiki markup- or template-based list code {{crossref|pw=y|(see [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists]] and [[Help:List]])}}.
*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.
**Indents (such as this) are permitted if the elements are [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists#"Children" (i.e., indentation)|"child" items]].
*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, for example in a listing of musical tracks.
*Use the same grammatical form for all elements in a list, and do not mix sentences and sentence fragments as elements, for example when the elements are:
**'''complete sentences''' – each one is formatted with sentence case (its first letter is capitalized) and a final period (full point);
**'''sentence fragments''' – the list is typically introduced by an introductory fragment ending with a colon;
**'''titles of works''' – they retain the original capitalization of the titles;
**'''other elements''' – they are formatted consistently in either sentence case or lower case.