I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Hatnote#Standardizing for-see lists about standardizing and centralizing the code that generates lists of "For X, see Y" items in hatnotes. The discussion may affect this page, but is located there as it's relevant to others as well. Please comment there if interested. {{ Nihiltres | talk | edits}} 17:26, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
(pinging Andy) As part of improvements to the list-generating functionality, Module:Hatnote list/sandbox has a feature whereby if any list items contain the separator (a comma), then the list uses the alternate separator (a semicolon). For example:
{{#invoke:Hatnote list/sandbox|forSee|''semicolons''|Pointe-Claire, Quebec|and|Rockville, Maryland|and|Hackensack, New Jersey}}
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However, since this happens at the level of andList
, different for-see items (each an individual sentence) in a for-see list may use different separators. For example:
{{#invoke:Hatnote list/sandbox|forSee|''semicolons''|Pointe-Claire, Quebec|and|Rockville, Maryland|and|Hackensack, New Jersey|''commas''|Comma|and|Semicolon|and|Full stop}}
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Is this behaviour undesirable? It'd take some annoying restructuring to avoid it. {{ Nihiltres | talk | edits}} 20:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
{{#invoke:Hatnote list/sandbox|forSee|''other songs by the same title''|Black Widow (disambiguation)#Songs{{!}}Brute force label text|and|Special:Permalink/718165170#Standardizing for-see lists|and|Category:Wikipedia semi-protected templates|and|File:Å.svg|and|English Wikipedia#nonexistent section|and|Red link article|and|Veni, vidi, vici|and|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?|''another list''|Article#Section|and|Technology}}
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I want to propose a change that allows final punctuation in the hatnote list to merge/collapse even with an italicized (and therefore de-italicized) title, which WP:ITHAT recommends. The current version can be seen in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where the hatnote (which I edited for the title to be italicized) ends with both an exclamation mark and a full-stop. Without title italicization, only the exclamation mark appears. I didn't add an equivalent change to the module for bolded text (I have not seen bolded text in a hatnote) but I don't mind someone else also proposing it if they think it's also needed. (You can check the proposed difference here. There was also some talk in Wikipedia talk:Lua about the sandbox code and the proposal itself [ link.) LightNightLights ( talk) 10:09, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
''this'''
). Are there any remaining concerns before I implement this? {{
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