Talk:List of Maine county seats

Why was the list of Counties numbered? A list should not be unless those numbers reflect some order, for instance if the counties were listed here in order of creation seniority, or population, or land mass, etc. and that reference was explained. As it is, what did the numbers add to this list? Nothing. They were removed as per the Wiki editing guidelines quoted below dealing with lists.

Bulleted lists

Do not use bullets if the passage reads easily using plain paragraphs or indented paragraphs. If every paragraph in a section is bulleted, it is likely that none should be bulleted. Do not mix grammatical styles in a list – either use all complete sentences or use all sentence fragments. Begin each item with a capital letter, even if it is a sentence fragment. When using complete sentences, provide a period at the end of each. When using sentence fragments, do not provide a period at the end.

Numbered lists

All the rules for bulleted lists apply also to numbered lists. Use numbered rather than bulleted lists only if you will be referring back to items by number, or the sequence of the items is critical (for example, you are explaining step 1, step 2, etc. of a multi-step process).

JackME 22:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)