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Q&A Punctuation in a list

This is a stylistic choice. I would never use a comma or semicolon at the end of a list item. I would use a period/full stop only if the item is a full sentence. To wit: Star Trek is known for ...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T12:00:27Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:58:56Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T03:58:56Z (about 5 years ago)
This is a stylistic choice. I would never use a comma or semicolon at the end of a list item. I would use a period/full stop only if the item is a full sentence. To wit:

> _Star Trek_ is known for breaking new ground on television in several ways:
> 
> • Kirk and Uhura's kiss in "Plato's Stepchildren" was the first interracial kiss on broadcast TV.
> 
> • Chekov (a Russian) and Uhura (a black woman) as bridge officers
> 
> • An alien as the first officer (and in the pilot, a woman as the first officer)
> 
> • In later series, black and female captains, and a Klingon bridge officer
> 
> • Apocryphally, Lt. Malcolm Reed was intended to be gay, which would have made all the security officers contravene the hulking testosterone-soaked bruiser stereotype (Yar, a wasp-waisted woman; Worf, the oddly subdued Klingon; Odo, the thoughtful shapeshifter; Tuvok, a Vulcan; and Reed, a slender gay man).

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-01-19T01:55:51Z (almost 10 years ago)
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