User talk:WhoAteMyButter

Hi,

I noticed your revert of my my edit on Doom modding. Normally, I wouldn't have added the mark-up, but I've noticed that with annotated links, it imports the shortdesc (or at least it seems to), so I assumed that adding mark-up to shortdescs would be wise for cases when annotated links are used. In case I see an annotated link with this formatting problem in the future, is there a different solution I may use?
Thanks,
Packer1028 (talk) 03:43, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi,
My reasoning is within WP:SHORTDESC, where it says each s.d. should be written in plain text – without any type of markup or pictorial elements. The fact that annotated links (I assume {{Annotated link}}?) will reflect markup correctly is not an intended feature and the docs of this template describe a solution: The text shown for the link may be piped if desired or required (such as for adding italics to the names of works). Therefore, if you want to add italics to an a.t. you should pipe it, not put the markup in an s.d. I hope this helps. WhoAteMyButter (🌷_talk│🌻^contribs) 04:20, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

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