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I posted about this earlier in this Wiki Talk thread, and it was suggested that I come here. In trope pages, when you type more than three asterisks in a paragraph (these are just plain asterisks, not being used as bullet points), the string gets chopped down to three. On the forums, you can fix this by escaping them:
[=********=]
But that doesn't seem to work in trope pages.
edited 7th Oct '09 9:17:48 PM by Oonerspism  :)
This is actually on purpose, as far as I can tell. There used to be no limit, and it made things look pretty sloppy.
I think it's also supposed to be a reminder that if you're that far, you should seriously consider just revising and condensing some of the bullets.
 in vitro veritas
It's not about the asterisks for bulleted lists. It's about in-text asterisks, such as blanking out a person's name. "Mr B*********".
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It's about literal ****** turning out as ***, not the actual indentation bullets.
Workaround is to group them in threes, like this: [=***=][=***=] — but that's a bit messy.
edited 7th Oct '09 9:22:14 PM by BrokenChaos Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
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Unless you're trying to bleep out profanity (in which case see Our Super Strict Language Policy), why not just use spoiler tags if you're trying to mask out information?
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The page where the problem occured was Spell My Name With A Blank, where using asterisks is the whole point in various examples.
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