User talk:86.146.209.237

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Again, welcome! Jerod Lycett (talk) 00:35, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: I doubt that Wikipedia's policies include putting the bullets of a bullet pointed list in the middle of the illustration that they are next to. This is a known limitation of the Wikipedia interface on most browsers. Indeed bulleted list are deprecated for just this reason and should be presented in prose. 86.146.209.237 (talk) 11:09, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is not deprecated, and what you're attempting goes against MOS:NOBR. Jerod Lycett (talk) 15:30, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: But once again, you have put the bullets in the middle of the illustration NOT next to the text where they belong. Bulleted list do not work where they are next to illustrations and they never have. Even {{bulleted list}} does the same thing. It is possible that you have one of the very few browsers that render the bullets correctly, but the great majority do not. 86.146.209.237 (talk) 16:34, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Philishave is a discontinued brand

Articles about discontinued brands are given in the past tense. Pontiac automobiles are still being driven, but because the brand is discontinued, the Wikipedia article about Pontiac cars are in the past tense. Steelbeard1 (talk) 14:40, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Steelbeard1: The manual of style says different. The Pontiac article is wrong and does not follow the WP:MOS (now fixed). See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Per MOS:TENSE, articles are written in the present tense unless the "product no longer meaningfully exists". Philishave branded razors are still in existence and so qualifies for the present tense. Also see the first example of correct usage, "The PDP-10 is a mainframe computer family manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1966 into the 1980s" (my emphasis). This in spite of the PDP-10 not having been manufactured for over 30 years. They still exist (though most probably in museums).

Whether you or I deem it right or wrong is irrelevant. It so happens that I agree with you, but WP:MOS says otherwise. 86.146.209.237 (talk) 17:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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