Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20140328125336/@comment-4787430-20140328190513

I don't think there was a consensus on it. I only remember people doing it one day on book articles, first using the double apostrophe italics and then switching to HTML italics. Then Deyvid updated the style guide to include it, but using  and . The style guide was updated on December 3, 2013, but I couldn't find any consensus tied to the changes. If you look at the page pre-December, there was no inclusion of italics in book content.

I do agree that using italics does make it a bit hard to read, so I support getting rid of them and just viewing the content in plain text. As for potential badgehunting, the removal of the italics could surely invite badgehunters too, just as they did when italics were added.

If this does pass, then the only way to combat the badgehunting or at least lessen the chance of it happening would be to allow DwemerBot to make the removal changes, however, that is only possible on pages that are using the HTML italics  and . Otherwise, if the content is still using the apostrophes, the bot won't be able to do the changes automatically, since it will remove everything that contains double apostrophes, including bolded text.