Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-7091122-20170125191914

This is something I never got. From the start, the link colors were there to spice up the wiki, and were taken pretty seriously. But then they just kind of silently vanished as far as I can tell.

Now, honestly, these could be really neat! It's obviously nothing major, but it would look really nice.

I have a few reasons to back this up:
 * It's a nice little detail - Subtle, but it really breathes life into the wiki. Especially when you look at, say, a navbox. It's not just all blue links there!
 * It gives motivation to improve the link colors for certain pages - I'M LOOKING AT YOU, POPS CORN. By making it part of the wiki CSS, we have extra motivation to improve these and make them look the best we can.
 * Perhaps most important of all, there are much more minor things that are part of the Wikia CSS and were never questioned, but yet these link colors were - Does anyone even know of the custom cursor here? Y'know, that green one that kinda sorta looks like the 3D cursors from Windows XP? Except the lighting's reversed so it only kinda looks like it? Heck, did we even vote to add that? Did anyone even so much at notice it when it was added? And has anyone even brought it up since? I haven't heard even a sentence about it since I first became active here, and that was February 5th of last year, so I'm willing to bet even some of our current staff haven't really thought about it... Yeah. How come that gets to stay as part of our CSS, but link colors are a no-no?

Ultimately, it's a nice little aesthetic thing that just kinda looks nice and makes the Wiki feel just that much more neat. It's not a huge thing, no, but it doesn't hurt to add these back, now, does it? And besides, if a page has a bad link color (You know what I mean), we can just change it to a better color. No need to axe the entire thing from the wiki's CSS when you could just fix it. 