Bulbapedia talk:Manual of style: Difference between revisions

As a longtime visitor, I’ve always been a bit confused as to why episode titles are italicized here instead of put in quotes, as in the normal convention. I get that the pairs of apostrophes in wikicode mimic quotation marks, but once published have two very different results. Heck, books like the Pokémon Adventures manga have no formatting, when books in normal convention are italicized. I tried to find an answer within the MOS text, but couldn’t find any. I’m not demanding it change, as it’s become ingrained in Bulbapedia aesthetic, but some clarity would be nice (and I get why epcodes don’t get any formatting whatsoever, it makes complete sense)--[[User:KnightGalarie|KnightGalarie]] ([[User talk:KnightGalarie|talk]]) 06:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

:They're not italicized because "the apostrophes look like quotation marks", otherwise we would've just used quotation marks in the first place. That's just the way it has been for a long time. Epicodes don't get italicized because they are generally used in the context of the Japanese version of an episode and thus don't have an English title (and we're not going to use the Japanese title because we're an English wiki).--[[User:Force Fire|<span style="color:#00A1E9">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#59C2F1">orce</span>]][[User talk:Force Fire|<span style="color:#BF004F">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#D5598C">ire</span>]] 12:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)