Talk:Octagon Building (Santa Cruz, California)

Embolding alternate names
Based on your interpretation of MOS:BOLD, bolding should be used more in the first paragraph of articles. I don't think this is a good interpretation. Have a look around Wikipedia. We use the bold sparingly especially on small articles of one or two paragraphs. It's distracting.

In such a small article items don't really get lost easily. But lets say you did have a need to emphasize something - maybe something in a really big article - then follow the advice there at MOS:BOLD and "Use italics, not boldface, for emphasis in article text". E_dog95'  Hi ' 21:07, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a National Register of Historic Places article in which alternate names are commonly emboldened in the lead. clariosophic (talk) 15:37, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The boldings and how they may be used as you describe them (alternate names being boldened in the lead of these types of articles) is OK. But for this article specifically... The article is just the one paragraph and thus does not contain a lead. So in this particular case, would it be correct to follow that line of thinking? E_dog95'   Hi ' 16:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)