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Yes, because this isn't for regulars, it's for everyone, including complete randoms who know nothing about MGS, the profiles have to be written to compensate for them too, which might not matter for some verses, here tho, bolding names help conveys when it's a character, and when it isn't.
It might not be to abundant now for Raiden, but it's there to future proof and stay consistent with other profiles for the verse, which will be important when we get to Big Boss and others who have shit like straight up actual normal snakes in his equipment, among other stuff, so we'd have shit like snake the character, snake the codename, snake the animal, snake the weapon, snake the title and term, snake the character again because there's 5 of them, etc.
It makes it clear when it's talking about a character, and when it's talking about a normal thing, even things like "The Boss", ok there's "the Boss" the character, but what about "the boss" the basic phrasing? Because that's going to be stated and quoted normally a bunch too. This also applies to things like Fox, We got Fox the Unit, Fox the term, Fox the character, Fox the animal, even types of techniques like fox tracking, and more.
I already know randoms have trouble parsing things like that, I ran it by like 10+ people who know nothing about MGS and they had no idea wtf was what.

And yeah. We're an indexing wiki, why wouldn't we list the stats of one of his major weapons that also has hax built into it? Failure to do so is failure to actually index his weapons, people would just assume it's the same when it isn't. That weapon also doesn't cut through things at the quantum level, it's designed not to do that, it's a beat stick used for non-lethal take downs, incap, and hax. And him having hax in general doesn't matter, like would we not list Killer Queen's stats or a Stand User's stats because they use hax to kill almost exclusively or their stand to fight? As an aside, I was told to list the main tier as High 7-C to 7-B, I originally just had it as varies, up to 7-B. Staff did not like that.

"Varies" seem like a better alternative, especially when they're secondary weapons like batons. Otherwise, it feels like Raiden often uses equipment that limits his power.

Do MG characters really use snakes and foxes as equipment, and is this used in AP footnotes? The problem is that the bold font feels like a hyperlink to a calculation with a caption for the stat value. For techniques, you can always use italics; animal names and simple terms can be written in lowercase, while names and nicknames can be capitalized.

The point isn't that the text makes the profile incomprehensible to the average user. The point is that bold font is used to emphasize the main aspects of the profile, namely, the stats. Bold font is appropriate in skill and technique descriptions, but when it appears right next to stats, it visually overloads the page and the meaning of the bold font is lost. When intuitively searching for stats, it becomes difficult to distinguish stats from their explanations.

Not how that works? There is no "it makes it seem like", he has a standard tactic section, there is no "Seems like he uses". That's simply how the wiki lists values, take it up with the staff that literally told me to change it if you want.

Yes, they do, we literally have multiple characters named Fox and Snake and Wolf, and Mantis, and The Boss, and more, some are even named basic words like the pain.
Names don't work like that, can you differentiate between Fox, Fox, and Fox? All would need to be capitalized, but one's a character, one's the military unit, one's the codename.
How are you confusing bolding with linking? Links are always the color blue. If it isn't blue, it isn't a link.

Your point is worse off. Bold is appropriate wherever it should be used, there is no rules or guidelines stating it must only be used in a specific spot. It can be used anywhere if need be.
Character names are bolded, units and other notable facets are italicized, normal shit is left alone.
This can be used anywhere, I've already gathered enough input to know the the average actual ignorant reader has less trouble understanding it when formatted this way, you're the only person out of 25+ who seems to tink that bolding means links, instead of blue text means links.
Why would we regress to make it harder for people to differentiate because you don't think a word should be bolded in a different section arbitrarily? I'm being serious, you just said it's not a matter of being incomprehensible, it actually makes it more comprehensible for some and is neutral to others. And, no, what? How are you losing track of "the stats", they're in the same location on every single profile. They're always off to the side in between the brackets.

Regardless, it's staying the way it is, it needs to stay that way to be consistent with profiles where it 100% is required. And it was run by dozens of people where it was considered a beneficial change to aid in parsing, unless you can find like 30+ people who think focusing and differentiating makes parsing 3 lines more difficult.

In fact, there are quite a few profiles on the wiki where the characteristic values and hyperlinks are combined into a single entity. For example, "Country level+" is both an AP and a link to the calculation.

So? This profile doesn't do that, it makes use the value notes.

Okay. What about the KNY verse? Is his CRT next in line?