https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12262

--- Comment #23 from Nemo_bis <federicol...@tiscali.it> 2012-03-11 17:18:52 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #22)
> Some comment - AUser (talk)
> * Blah blah blah. - DifferentUser (talk)
> : Some other Comment. - AnotherUser (talk)
> 
> Should it appear as though AnotherUser is replying to AUser or DifferentUser?
> IMHO the former is the far more intended, but maybe that's observation bias.

The 0th bias is that you're considering only discussions and not how other
hundreds of wikis use the syntax, but I can live with it.
I don't know if it's more the former or the latter, but surely AnotherUser
wants their comment to be distinguished from DifferentUser's. 
Everyone knows that putting your comment with a single : under another comment
with a single : will make them confused as it messes up the hierarchy (that's
the syntax for a single, multi-line indented comment); not the same applies to
* below : and viceversa. So suddenly an unknown number of discussions have
changed meaning,

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