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)

19. List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win
20. List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
21. List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
22. List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director
23. List of fictitious Academy Award nominees
24. List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
25. List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees
26. List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
27. List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
28. List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
29. List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
30. List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
31. List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees
32. List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees
33. List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
34. List of Uruguayan Academy Award winners and nominees
35. 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)

19. List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win
20. List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
21. List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
22. List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director
23. List of fictitious Academy Award nominees
24. List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
25. List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees
26. List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
27. List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
28. List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
29. List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
30. List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
31. List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees
32. List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees
33. List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
34. List of Uruguayan Academy Award winners and nominees
35. 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))