Template talk:Dynamic a-list

RFC for adding a plural parameter
The wording on this template is a bit awkward and not adapted. The current text is:

"This article contains one or more incomplete lists which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by [ expanding it / them] with entries that are reliably sourced."

I propose a new parameter and usage for articles that have multiple lists:


 * (alternative syntax)
 * (alternative syntax)

This template could use a parameter  to display the following message for multiple lists in article:

"This article contains multiple incomplete lists which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by [ expanding them] with entries that are reliably sourced."

In addition, the parameter syntax  could be used to create the following message:

"This article contains an incomplete list which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by [ expanding it] with entries that are reliably sourced."

The text without the plural parameter can be left as-is, mainly also for compatibility reasons and ease of use/ambiguity. and  statements can be considered to be supported as well.

80.221.159.67 (talk) 04:11, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Without commenting on whether this particular proposal is necessary or desirble, I would recommend that the best usage syntax would be, with the current verbiage presented in the case of a missing or invalid first parameter. RFC-bot invite VanIsaacWScont 04:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If we went with this option, the RfC would not really be needed, as it wouldn't change content on existing pages without manual intervention, — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 10:59, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposal to wrapperify
This appears to be a mostly copy-and-pasted spinoff of Dynamic list, and (as so often happens with such templates) it's gotten out of sync (it's missing edits like this one). I'd like to add a parameter to Dynamic list to allow it to handle plurality and then turn this into a wrapper of it. Does that sound good? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:40, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:19, 26 September 2021 (UTC)