Category:WPSHIPS:Infobox list errors

This is a tracking category. It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme. More information: This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set. These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications). Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

This is a tracking category for list errors in WP:SHIPS infoboxes. Lists in the various infobox templates use the common unordered list (*) markup. The templates read the list markup and produce the correct HTML for unbulleted lists. This overcomes limitations that exist in the Mediawiki:Common.css plainlist class and the templates {{plainlist}} and {{unbulleted list}}.

In the past, the WP:SHIPS infobox usage guide required unbulleted lists for reasons of limited available space and for aesthetics. Editors used a variety of other methods to create lists in infoboxes. These included <br /> line break HTML tags and the use of {{plainlist}} and {{unbulleted list}} templates. Problems with these methods are:

• use of <br /> makes visually 'correct' lists that are not correct for those who use screen readers. See MOS:ACCESS §Vertical lists.
• limitations in Mediawiki:Common.css, prevent {{plainlist}} and {{unbulleted list}} from correctly rendering multi-level lists

The WP:SHIPS infobox templates can detect certain list formatting errors. When those errors are detected, the page is added to this category. In some cases, an error message is rendered in place of the list. The error conditions are:

• the parameter value is plain text that includes <br /> markup
• improper first list-item markup: ** item text instead of * item text
• the parameter value has a line that does not begin with list-item markup (one or more *)
• indent by more than one step: * item text followed by *** item text for example