User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-188432-20130123012222

Tangerineduel wrote: Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say that the process of linking the subheadings has been in force a longer time than the policy that was recently written. Recently written? No. The words "avoid links within headings" are in the very first revision of the Manual of Style, long before I edited here under the name CzechOut. The guidance to not link in section headings has been with us since we first started writing down rules. They weren't written by me or you, but by OncomingStorm, who was an admin here before either of us.

This business of adding links to section heads is something that's only arisen in the last year or two. That's why you won't find it much in any articles about pre-Matt Smith stories. More story pages don't have these linked section heads than those that do. Why shouldn't the subheadings be linked? What about the little v that and the box around the subheadings visually indicates far, far more than the colour. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. I didn't mention a table...why are you? I'm confused again. We've been talking about a table since this discussion was on the old forums. If you prefer, we've been talking about making a template that presents this information in a uniform, tabular format.
 * Because it's been the rule since 19 September 2006.
 * Because it's illogical to create a link, when the link color won't necessarily be different from the heading color. It is hard damned work trying to come up with three colors that are distinguishable from one another. It's unnecessarily hard to come up with a link color that will be distinguished from both the normal and the headline text colors.  In other words, it's not just illogical, it's technically very difficult.
 * Because it's against standard
 * Because it leads to people making ridiculous links, like is present at Eleventh Doctor, where Post links to The End of Time and Regeneration links to The Eleventh Hour. (EDIT: Okay, that's how it was. I just couldn't stand it anymore, so I've changed it within the past few hours.)