On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Delirium wrote:
This case is covered in the style manual, which recommends the "with comma" version for exactly that reason, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_style#Commas
(FWIW, the punctuation section I couldn't remember the reference to is on that page as well, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_style#Punctuation)
The current style suggestions seem mostly reasonable to me. Certainly better than a bunch of weird wikimarkup to try to accomodate all variants.
-Mark
I agree, the mark up idea looks like a problem in search of a problem.