Kurt/Lee-
I'm not sure I agree with this one at all. If a blank line doesn't delimit paragraphs, what does? And if we maintain numbers across separated lists, how do you specify separate lists that /should/ restart from 1?
Do we have articles with two lists which are not separated with some text or a heading? If really needed we could do it with two blank lines.
I tend to agree with Kurt. The cases where
# foo
# bar
should become
1. foo
1. bar
seem to be very few, if they exist at all. When you have
# foo
baz
# bar
It is quite obvious that the list needs to be restarted.
I've run into this problem before when importing text into a Wikipedia- based wiki. With very long list items, having an additional blank line in the wikitext also greatly increases readability.
Regards,
Erik