Help talk:Talk pages
Archivelist styling suggestion or guideline
There does not seem to be any guidance on Wikipedia's Help:Archiving a talk page on how to layout or style the archive list. The Example 2 seems to most closely match our potential use case of archives covering a year or a number of years. Just using a numbered list does not seem to be an appropriate use of space in {{Archives}}.
Searching for better practices, in Talk:Main Page/archivelist we have tried, which was copied from the Wikipedia page User talk:Izno/archivelist:
| Markup | Renders as: |
|---|---|
<div style="column-count: 2"> # [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1|2009]] # [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2|2013]] # [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3|2020]] </div> |
There is a small but noticeable vertical alignment problem when multiple columns.
A better solution might be:
| Markup | Renders as: |
|---|---|
{{flatlist|style=text-align: center;|
* [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1|2009]]
* [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2|2013]]
* [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3|2020]]
}}
|
Since we generally use years or year ranges it makes the most sense to me to use a bullet list rather than a numbered list in this case.
Using the <nowki>style=text-align: center;</nowiki> keeps the list center aligned with the rest of the {{Archives}} output.
--Peculiar Investor 19:03, 8 February 2023 (UTC)