Why is this happening?

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Okay, hopefully I’ll at least be able to post this so people can see it.

In another thread, I posted this message:

[noparse]North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links.

  1. Nelson River
  2. Mackenzie River
  3. Nanook River
  4. Hornaday River
  5. Colville River[/noparse]

And it appears like this:

North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links.

  1. Nelson River
  2. Mackenzie River
  3. Nanook River
  4. Hornaday River
  5. Colville River

Any ideas why it’s making the fourth line disappear and then renumbering the list?

Is it the ancient Hornaday River Curse?

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The ending “/URL” is in upper case only on the line that is missing. And the beginning “URL” of the next line is the only one in upper case. I’m not sure why that should make a difference but its a likely starting point in the investigation.

But I never did trust that old Hornaday River.

ETA: Oh, there is no closing quotation mark after the link to Hornaday River.

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North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links.

  1. Nelson River
  2. Mackenzie River
  3. Nanook River
  4. Hornaday River
  5. Colville River

eta: No, that wasn’t it.

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North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links.

  1. Nelson River
  2. Mackenzie River
  3. Nanook River
  4. Hornaday River
  5. Colville River

eta: That was it. It was the missing quotation mark.

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Gather ‘round, lil quote marks, and I’ll tell you the story of Little Nemo’s Punctuation trip down the ol’ Hornaday river … the river that swallows code!

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You can leave off the quotation marks altogether.

North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links.

  1. Nelson River
  2. Mackenzie River
  3. Nanook River
  4. Hornaday River
  5. Colville River
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IIRC you need the quotation marks if the URL link contains spaces, but not if it doesn’t, as in the example list.

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Huh. I was going to guess a missing ] because a missing > swallows code the same way in html.