Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190321112411/@comment-1895174-20190428071521

Harasar wrote: AnnabellRice wrote: LoveWaffle wrote: Which is already the point of greentext being... well,  green . The green text could be kept while the link text color was customized, and because it would theoretically be done in the template coding itself, as long as someone used the correct tag, then everything would automatically be recolored properly, thereby mitigating human error while simultaneously avoiding subjective determinations. Personally, I think it would be better to change tag's color as well, green tags distract attention. And naturally, if we would implement it, it would be done in templates, not manually. Again, that's the point of the green tag being green. It's supposed to catch your eye so you know this isn't a normal appearance.

Other issues that arise from trying to fix what is ultimately a relatively small problem we've spent far too much time on in a way that, as ADour points out, doesn't even address the initial concern:
 * What happens if {{Mentioned| is placed on a redlink? Should it show up as a redlink, or turn into a pale pink ? From the mock-up, it seems like it shows up as the same faded periwinkle as a functioning link. That's not helpful to editors who won't know they might've made a mistake.
 * What if it isn't placed on a link, and the {{mentioned}} tag is added afterwards? Is there a way to account for that?
 * What if I place other greentext tags after the link? Would they change colors, too?
 * I'm not certain there's any font color that won't be either hard to read or draw attention to itself just for being different from the standard blue and black.