User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro/Sandbox/Page36

Here is the original list.


 * 1) List of Academy Award articles
 * 2) List of Academy Award records
 * 3) List of Academy Award-winning films
 * 4) List of Academy Awards ceremonies
 * 5) List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances
 * 6) List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year
 * 7) List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners
 * 8) List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
 * 9) List of Argentine Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 10) List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 11) List of Best Actor winners by age at win
 * 12) List of Best Actress winners by age at win
 * 13) List of Best Director winners by age at win
 * 14) List of Best Supporting Actor nominees
 * 15) List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films)
 * 16) List of Best Supporting Actor winners by age at win
 * 17) List of Best Supporting Actress nominees
 * 18) List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films)


 * 1) List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win
 * 2) List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 3) List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 4) List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director
 * 5) List of fictitious Academy Award nominees
 * 6) List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
 * 7) List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 8) List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 9) List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
 * 10) List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
 * 11) List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 12) List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
 * 13) List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 14) List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 15) List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 16) List of Uruguayan Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 17) Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country

Now, some time later, a Wikipedia editor wants to add the following 3 items into the list ... and he wants to add them in, in alpabetical order:


 * List of AAA
 * List of AAB
 * List of AAC

If the editor simply goes in and adds these 3 new items, it will thus appear as follows:


 * 1) List of AAA
 * 2) List of AAB
 * 3) List of AAC
 * 4) List of Academy Award articles
 * 5) List of Academy Award records
 * 6) List of Academy Award-winning films
 * 7) List of Academy Awards ceremonies
 * 8) List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances
 * 9) List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year
 * 10) List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners
 * 11) List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
 * 12) List of Argentine Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 13) List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 14) List of Best Actor winners by age at win
 * 15) List of Best Actress winners by age at win
 * 16) List of Best Director winners by age at win
 * 17) List of Best Supporting Actor nominees
 * 18) List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films)
 * 19) List of Best Supporting Actor winners by age at win
 * 20) List of Best Supporting Actress nominees
 * 21) List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films)


 * 1) List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win
 * 2) List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 3) List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 4) List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director
 * 5) List of fictitious Academy Award nominees
 * 6) List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
 * 7) List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 8) List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 9) List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
 * 10) List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
 * 11) List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 12) List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
 * 13) List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 14) List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 15) List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 16) List of Uruguayan Academy Award winners and nominees
 * 17) Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country

So, obviously, the "numbering" is all off. And this will happen exponentially with each new edit into the article ... adding and subtracting items on the list. Your code (in the above example) will always make the right-hand list begin at 19 ... no matter how many items are in the left hand list. Isn't there some way to make the list "adjust" the numbers correctly ... by itself, without the editor changing the count numbers (parameters) in the code? Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:54, 10 March 2009 (UTC))