Thread:Emptylord/@comment-4881935-20150722052058/@comment-1330314-20150723001801

ClariS wrote: First off, bolding has not been reserved for the champion name. Before champion names began to be bolded, most bolding had already been used for for abilities in-description radius, angles, specific champion debuffs/buffs and pets names.

Descriptions pertaining to radius and angles are being moved out of the main description and into the range field for each infobox. Pet names are the same as champion names in that they represent characters, so if anything that would be an argument in favor of bolding champion names for the sake of consistency, and the bolding for buffs/debuffs is typically attached to a mini-icon to simulate a link.

ClariS wrote: Second, would it not be better to alert the reader the actual action over the champion's name if this is supposed to give the reader a quick reference what the ability causes the ability to do.

Bolding the champion's name already does that.

ClariS wrote: Third, if a reader has no idea what an ability does, then they're going to have to read the ability description. As you say, we break the description into separate fields to attempt to make anchor specific parts of the ability. The reason why bolding doesn't do much to help in that regard is that, most bold champion name occurs right at the beginning of new paragraphs. The broken up paragrahs already serves the purpose that you're trying to make the bold champion name also serve.

There can be multiple things going on in each paragraph, and bolding champions' names helps identify those separate components. Again, not all readers have the time to read the full description, and may be looking for just one component, and bolded champion names helps with that.