User talk:Dirtlawyer1/Archives/2011/March

Italics in Infobox college coach

DL, what's going on? I saw your edit on Lewie Hardage to restore italics to the infobox. I see your argument for differentiating each sport from the list of years below it, but I wonder if italics is the best way to go. I've built out a great many of these infoboxes for multi-sport coaches and have left the sports without any special formatting because it seemed cleared enough without any. I think it's always best to format things in the simplest way possible without sacrificing clarity. The italics on the Hardage article are also, of course, breaking the fledgling formatting standards in practice that I've been implementing. So, we should think about whether we really need special formatting here and, if so, is italics the best option. Take a look at John Maulbetsch, Phog Allen, Amos Alonzo Stagg and consider how the simple formatting works in those examples. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Yo, JW. I appreciate your need for format standardization, if not uniformity, on the college coaches' article pages. We've come a long, long way in the last two years. Not a big thing, but my sense of layout and design suggests some typographic device needs to be used to distinguish the sports subheaders from the dates of service and teams underneath the subheaders. To my eye, it all sort of runs together. Again, not a big thing, but I would suggest something to distinguish the subheader from the text beneath. I used italics because the subheaders and text are already presented in bold type, and italic type is one of the few other typographical effects available on our relatively limited WP menu. I played with all caps, and liked the look of it even less (and it's inconsistent with WP's established "sentence case" section headers). Thoughts? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)