Board Thread:Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130130173255

It has been a violation of our Manual of Style since 2006 to put a link into a section head. This rule, copied and pasted from the original Manual of Style, can now be found at T:HEAD.

It causes a great many visual and technical difficulties, mainly to do with the way the site looks. If there are links in the section heads, and our link colour is set to be a different colour than the section head colour, then the section heads will have two colours. If we choose to make the section head colour the same colour as links, then it doesn't appear as if a link is there.

Maximum stylistic flexibility is therefore achieved by not linking in section heads.

So:

The bot is now enforcing this very old rule. In most cases, this will proceed without issue. But some editors have gotten very, um, creative with their section links. === Pre-regeneration === is the kind of thing that might leave behind odd section heads after the bot is done with its work. I expect the number of bad cases to be few and far between, but if you find a section head that reads weirdly, please don't just revert the bot. Instead, come up with a new header that makes sense and contains no links. This task is necessary to the ongoing effort to establish a new colour scheme, particularly as affects the light-coloured theme. 