Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3234315-20171222065620/@comment-3234315-20171222192427

Okay, didn't want to pull you, Linn, into a debate about wiki styling in general; that has been in the past and surely will be in the future some discussion between Islandking and me (yeah, I'm haunting you ;), but that shouldn't bother you.

As a second compromise I'd suggest: first expand some already existent personality sections the way you intended originally. Leave them for now where they are. Then we see if or how it's possible to integrate extreme party interactions into this section. And then we present the result to Islandking, to suggest again a more prominent place of this section.

As for this bold thing … I'm pretty sure that not long ago I've read a really good explanation of how emphasis, italics and bold should be handled in wikis, some Manual of Style I unfortunately can't find anymore.

However, everytime I stumble about bold words other than those for the pagename on articles no matter where, I do literally stumble – and think, "that doesn't look good – is there some other way to format this?" Usually italics are preferred over bold. The only related MoS I could find now, was Wikipedia's, which says "Boldface or CAPITALS are not normally used for emphasis; use italics instead […]"

In general: I don't like it, simple as that.

I can't really imagine how a bolded Khalid would in any way make more clear that here's a conflict with Montaron. Neither would the whole sentence: "Montaron talks of killing party members, and it's not just bluff or bluster. If kept in the party long enough, he will provoke Khalid into a fight, If that happens, Jaheira will join Khalid to fight Montaron and Xzar to death." This only would draw a reader's attention on that phrase, and distracting them from the flow of text.

Until I have some better concept in mind – what about reordering the relationships in the way that conflicts come first?

Or what about this? :D (Feel free to revert my edit.)

And only losely related, but anybody interested in how companion articles look like on the Dragon Age wiki (another one of my favorites), especially Leliana?