Board Thread:Wiki Discussions and Support/@comment-1207741-20150405193209/@comment-1207741-20150407001238

Seelentau wrote: Is there some rule in English grammar that tells us to italize the article's title in the opening sentence? Because I see no reason to do that, the bolding is enough to emphasize it. I mean, we don't do it in character articles, do we? You italicize "works". Naruto the character you don't italicize, but Naruto the series you do. Books, movies, albums, series, if it's a large enough body of whatever, it's italicized. Smaller sections within those bodies, like chapters, songs, and episodes, are supposed to be put in quotation marks; those don't come up on the wiki with great regularity.

Rule of thumb is that italics are kept regardless of whatever additional formatting there is, even bolding. Look up your favorite whatever on English Wikipedia and you'll see it's italicized in the lead, and in all likelihood the article title will have been italicized too.

Seelentau wrote: I think the novel's infoboxes should list the debut characters, just like the episode boxes do. That won't entirely satisfy your want for a cast listing. Shikamaru appears in Kakashi Hiden which would make that, not Shikamaru Hiden, his novel "debut" according to the wiki's current definition of the term.