Template talk:Reporting mark
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[edit] bolding of the mark?
Should the mark really be rendered in bold? This seems to violate the WP style guide. For example, see Sun (disambiguation), where its use for Sunset Railway (near the bottom) makes it the only item to appear in bold, which is in contradiction to WP:MOSDAB.--NapoliRoma (talk) 15:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- This template was originally created to present the reporting marks in a standard format in an article's first sentence. Since a majority of railroad companies in North America are referred to by their reporting mark (i.e. UP for Union Pacific Railroad, WP for Western Pacific Railroad, ATSF for Santa Fe Railroad, etc.), the template follows the convention that all the subject names in the lead section are bolded. We could easily add a parameter to turn off the bolding for use elsewhere in an article (so we'd put something like {{reporting mark|UP|bold=no}}, for example. Slambo (Speak) 14:37, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
