Thread:Lukas Exemplar/@comment-1409530-20160207054211/@comment-29517617-20160207113948

Many users, admins and regular editors, have already explained it to you. Colons are commonly used when offering a list. Like so:

He ate a lot of dishes: chicken, soup, salad.

Not when offering a simple explanation, like in the example of Dain's page. The list thing is also an explanation, but see how it is different from the list example?