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@Nizil Shah: Why the italics and bolding on some entries? I'm not seeing any justification for it in either MOS:BOLD or MOS:ITALICS. SpinningSpark 13:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2019-06-17T13:41:00.000Z","author":"Spinningspark","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Spinningspark-2019-06-17T13:41:00.000Z-Emphasis","replies":["c-Nizil_Shah-2019-06-18T09:59:00.000Z-Spinningspark-2019-06-17T13:41:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Spinning"}}-->

@Spinningspark: I don't know. The practise of bolding and italicizing based on number of casualty is ongoing for years and are done in previous disasters in India templates. I just followed what is being done for years. Asking at WT:INB might give you some answers. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 09:59, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2019-06-18T09:59:00.000Z","author":"Nizil Shah","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Nizil_Shah-2019-06-18T09:59:00.000Z-Spinningspark-2019-06-17T13:41:00.000Z","replies":["c-Spinningspark-2019-06-18T16:10:00.000Z-Nizil_Shah-2019-06-18T09:59:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Nizil"}}-->

I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Emphasis in templates instead. Local wikiprojects can develop their own guidelines, but these should not override or contradict Wikipedia-wide guidelines. SpinningSpark 16:10, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2019-06-18T16:10:00.000Z","author":"Spinningspark","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Spinningspark-2019-06-18T16:10:00.000Z-Nizil_Shah-2019-06-18T09:59:00.000Z","replies":["c-TAnthony-2019-06-18T19:51:00.000Z-Spinningspark-2019-06-18T16:10:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Spinning"}}-->

This seems to be the "norm" in all of these Indian disaster templates back to like 2009, but it seems like a case of everyone presuming consensus and duplicating the template. It looks like the first one created was Template:Disasters in India in 2014 in February 2014 by Quartzd. A nav box is a navigational tool and is not meant to convey information of its own, and this is not a proper use of italics or boldface. The footer keys should also be removed ("Incidents resulting in more than 50 deaths are in italics Deadliest incident is in bold") The layout is also a bit odd in that it is ordered by date but in a format we mostly see in lists, like 2019.— TAnthony^Talk 19:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2019-06-18T19:51:00.000Z","author":"TAnthony","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-TAnthony-2019-06-18T19:51:00.000Z-Spinningspark-2019-06-18T16:10:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->