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 * Unlike normal spaces, multiple hard spaces are not compressed by browsers into a single space.

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility #Lists
Do not separate list items by leaving empty lines or tabular column breaks between them. ... Normal MediaWiki list markup is unfortunately incompatible with normal MediaWiki paragraph markup.

To put multiple paragraphs in a list item, separate them with :


 * This is one item.This is another paragraph within this item.
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This can also be done with explicit HTML markup for paragraphs (note the closing  tag):


 * This is one item. This is another paragraph within this item.
 * This is another item.

In both cases, this must be done on a single code line. However, you can optionally use the trick of wrapping a code line break in an HTML comment (which suppresses it as an output line break), to separate paragraphs better in code view:


 * This is one item. This is another paragraph within this item. This is another paragraph within this item.  This is another paragraph within this item.
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This technique can be used for various forms of block-inclusion within a list item (because list items are technically block elements, which can contain other block elements):


 * This is one item. This is another paragraph within this item, and we're going to quote someone: This is a closing paragraph within the same list item.
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Be aware that not every fancy template can be used in this manner (e.g. some decorative quotation templates are table-based, and the MediaWiki parser will not handle such markup as being inside a list item).

(See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Glossaries for rich but accessible markup of complex Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists#Description description/definition/association lists)

Do not use line breaks to simulate paragraphs, because they have different semantics:

This is the same paragraph, with a line break before it.
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Line-break tags are for wrapping a paragraph, such as lines of a poem or of a block of source code. See also the and  MediaWiki tags.

Definitely do not attempt to use a colon to match the indentation level, since (as mentioned above) it produces three separate lists:


 * This is one item.
 * This is an entirely separate list.


 * This is a third list.

Alternatively, you can use one of the HTML list templates to guarantee grouping. This is most useful for including block elements, such as formatted code, in lists:

But this technique is not used on talk pages.

Indentation:  (see also Wikipedia:Indentation)

An accessible approach to indentation is the template for multi-line content; it uses CSS to indent the material. For single lines, a variety of templates exist, including (a universal template, with the same name on all Wikimedia sites); these indent with various whitespace characters.

Blank lines must be placed between colon-indented lines of text – especially in article content. This is interpreted by the software as marking the end of a list and the start of a new one.

If space is needed, there are two approaches, which will have different results for screen readers:

The first is to add a blank line with the same number of colons on it as those preceding the text above and below the blank line. This is appropriate when two editors are making comments immediately after each other at the same indentation level. For instance:


 * I completely agree. —User:Example
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 * I completely agree. —User:Example
 * I'm unconvinced. Is there a better source available? –User:Example2
 * I'm unconvinced. Is there a better source available? –User:Example2

This will tell the screen reader that this is two list items (the blank one will be ignored).

The second approach, for when the material is meant to be a single comment (or other list item, e.g. in article text) is to use new-paragraph markup on the same output line (see previous section for advanced techniques in this, to include complex content blocks):


 * Text here.More text. —User:Example3


 * Text here.More text. —User:Example3

User:Thryduulf: "If you want to separate paragraphs like that, then using  is better."

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Archive searching
(from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact talkpage)

Performing a search using the archive search box produces a search URL such as the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=brook&prefix=Talk%3AMolotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact%2FArchive&fulltext=Search+the+archives&fulltext=Search

Can also use the Special:Search page directly (see top of page).

Google searching: insource parameter
eg: to find Google citations that are not "books.google.com" citations:

insource:"google.com" -insource:"books.google.com"

To find all Reddit links which do not lead to 'ZScarpia':

insource:"reddit.com" -insource:"ZScarpia"

Wikipedia searching: insource parameter
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produces this result.

eg (from Template talk:Citation/Archive 8#Swedish LIBRIS database):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flibris.kb.se%2Fbib%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go

produces this result.

Searching for insource text "ZScarpia" in WP noticeboards etc., sorted by date: Here.

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