Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Embedded lists

"See Also"

We don't seem to be in the habit of putting See Also links in our articles. Isn't it common practice in paper encyclopedias to have a See Also section right under the article title?

For example: Energy See also energy conservation, energy policy, energy engineering.

The reason I bring this up is that some of our articles address a particular meaning of a word, with no indication of where one might turn for information on other senses. On the Conservation page, there is a nice sentence explaining that the page is about the conservation ethic, not laws of conservation in science. But isn't there a simpler way to just put See also Conservation of Energy or whatever totally different meaning a reader might be thinking of? Hawstom 23:29, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I thought "See Also:" was used pretty extensively here. Just go ahead and add wherever you think appropriate. There are also disambiguation pages and disambiguation statements added (usually) at the top of a page where more than one meaning could have lead a reader there - Marshman 00:02, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

"See Also" is not meant for disambiguation. It has more or less the same function as the internal links in the body of the article. It is used when there is no natural place for the link in the text or when a particular link is thought to be very important. Andres 04:09, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Proposed exception

I notice that this style guideline makes an exception for items that would result in a lengthy sentence. I propose a second exception for items that are currently short paragraphs. Sometimes, having them in a bulleted list makes them easier to read than if they were just short paragraphs. It also doesn't seem right to artificially condense unrelated points into a bigger paragraph. As an example, please see: 2005_Texas_Longhorn_football_team#After_the_season. I think this section is very clear the way it is formatted, though its formatting violates the style guide. Johntex\^talk 18:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]