User talk:CraigWyllie
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Kept a few I might still want to refer to someday, remove as I think they become un-necessary
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[edit] Excessive and Un-necessary Bolding
I've noticed that in certain articles there are a TON of individual words or names in bold - so many as to become distracting and annoying and to serve no purpose.
In many of the military hardware articles it seems that the weapons system in question and all forms of names of the system that the page is about - are bolded. This kind of makes sense as one given weapons system can have dozens and dozens of variants and name changes over the years, and the bolding (as ugly as it is) does clearly indicate that the name you are looking at is the same "system" as the article is about. So I presume that the bolding has a **specific** purpose.
Here is my list of articles where the bolding is so dense it's distracting (but I kind of understand why it could be useful - wish we could do so without using the bold attribute - perhaps italic? Much less distracting.
- list empty for now, but go through military weapons system pages, especially jets and missiles
Here is my list of pages where it seems totally pointless or is very very needless - where I think the bolding should be removed - period.
It's my hope that someday when I have enough examples I can find someone to point out the wikipedia style/rules on bolding and/or discuss which of the above are appropriate and which are inappropriate.
