Forum:When to use bullet points

There's been some chatter and article reversion recently about whether bullet points are required when a section has just one item.

Two such articles are Atraxi 3 and Grandma Connolly. Although I can understand using bullets for single items in sections where more points will be added at a later date (for instance, when you're the first person to list a continuity point on a story page), I can't at all abide them on pages where a list is unlikely. We should, I think, always preference normal paragraphs where it's at all possible. mini-mitch would seem to disagree with me, on the basis of a discussion elsewhere. In discussing the matter over Atraxi 3, Tangerineduel felt that bullets kept the item from "wandering". I'm honestly not sure what that means, nor do I understand The Thirteenth Doctor's counterpoint that a bullet on a single point would somehow save editing time. If there's only one point, you save a keystroke by not using an asterisk, surely.

I think there should be a rule in-universe articles (that is, not story pages), that says that bullets cannot be employed until there are at least two bits of distinct information. (And even then, bullets should be allowed, but not required. It's quite possible to write reasonable paragraphs that don't require the use of bullets.  Bullets are kind of a lazy way of writing, IMHO.  For instance, I don't want to have taken the time to have constructed a multi-paragraph section, only to have another editor come through and chop it up with bullets "because the MOS said to". )

What do others think?