Talk:Aqualung (album)

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[edit] Aqualung (album)

This page was moved from what is now a disambiguation page at Aqualung. Next time I'll use "move page" and preserve the edit history (I've learned) but it's not hard to find it in need, just follow the link above. Andrewa 21:15, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Actually, I deleted Aqualung (album), reverted Aqualung to its pre-disambiguation-page state, moved Aqualung to Aqualung (album), and then undeleted the original Aqualung (album) page again so as to restore the edit history. Just to confuse you. :) So the edit history of Aqualung (album) is actually all here now. I then recreated the disambiguation page at Aqualung myself, although I did note in my edit summary that you were a co-author of it, so hopefully I'm safe from accusations of plagiarism! Yes, I know I probably didn't need to do that moving, but, well, I felt like doing it. :) I like doing pointless things... -- Oliver P. 21:28, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
So it is! Certainly much neater that way. Hey, it's progress. I probably wouldn't have ever bothered myself, but this is the sort of thing that makes Wikipedia so exciting to me. It just sort of works. Andrewa 13:42, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Sorry to butt in, but that's an overall bad setup, which violates the guideline on Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles#Principle_of_least_astonishment. There should have been the pages

  • Aqualung (disambiguation) - with the 2-item list
  • Aqualung - the album, with the usual small header:
For other uses see Aqualung (disambiguation)

That's the way it's done when 99% of people will expect "Aqualung" to be the album, and 99% of wikilinks will intend to refer the album. -

[edit] Continuing number lists

Is there a way to continue a previous number list, i.e. a wiki equiv of <ol start="12">

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Yes, you just interrupt the normal list with #: (sharp-colon), so that

# one
# two
#: and last but not least
# three

gives you

  1. one
  2. two
    and last but not least
  3. three

I just used it to clearly separate the track list between the "real", original album track list, and the later bonus stuff (that was the point of your question, right? ;)

There was also a dirtier way of doing it:

# one
# two <BR
/><BR
/> and last but not least <BR
/><BR />
# three

which gives

  1. one
  2. two

    and last but not least

  3. three

It does avoid the extra indentation, but that's unclean, hard to edit, and confusing for wiki-newbies...

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