Can you put strikeout text in a biography?

Question

I have seen here in G2G and that is what made me think of it - working on a difficult profile so just thought it might work

Answer 1

Sorry, Navarro, but the only text decoration that can be applied using wiki code (the actual name of what we use in biographies) is bold and italic.  Chris did allow us one exception for superscript using the html tag.  Typically this is useful for things like first and second when using the numerals instead of spelling out the words - as in 1^st, for example.  Of course, we all know and love (?????) using 2 apostrophes at start and end for italic, 3 apostrophes at start and end for bold, and 5 apostrophes at start and end for text that is both bold and italic.

I wish we had more leeway, but I do understand the reasoning behind keeping it to a minimum.

Comments

Thanks, I figured but just checking

---

You know what?  I just figured the way to do it that we are permitted to use - entity codes.  It would be near impossible to do for a section of text, though, because of how time consuming it is.  Every character in Unicode (that's the name for the entire set of characters that can be typed and includes all the characters in all languages plus even the symbol font sets) has an entity code.  For example, the space character's code is:    (which I think of as Non-Breaking SPace to remember it).  The copyright symbol is © and the greater than (angle bracket) is > (which I think of as Greater Than).  There are several sites where you can look up all the characters and their entity codes (all codes begin with ampersand and end with semi-colon - in fact the code for the ampersand itself is &).

You could look up the entity codes for each character you want to be strikethrough and just string them together, but what an Excedrin headache it would be to do that!  One place where you can find the codes is:  https://www.ascii-code.com/  but that doesn't have all 193-or-so fonts - use google to find others - put in ascii code chart or entity code chart as your search term.

---

Oh, good ole ascii codes - wow that takes me back to the days of punch cards and computers in the rooms with the guys in white coats and all that!  I will see - would be tedious though  hmm there might be too where the alternat letters - like if I do alt - 0233 I get é which I do when I spell Métis - the mixed heritage of French, Scot and First Nation ancestors in what would become Canada - wow now I remember AOL and chats and putting stuff in the dingbats font so no one could read it - ha ha ha ha

---

There is a template employed by recent versions of MediaWiki, but it isn't included on WikiTree. On Wikipedia, for example, to display strikethrough text simply involves using the WikiText markup <s>some text here</s>. Just for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Strikethrough.

Answer 2

Perhaps you could move the text into the research notes area of the biography and explain why the text isn't right or doesn't belong?

Comments

That is exactly what I did, and will do for the things I can not match one of the sources to - lots of sources - lots of "facts", big ole match game!  Seven merge pile up

Answer 3

I faced the same problem and found that this works quite well to replace each character with an ASCII strikethough variant: https://symbl.cc/en/tools/strikethrough-text/