John Lee wrote:
One thing I've found even more perplexing than the
prevalence of Headings
Like This is the prevalence of level-three headings where level-2 headings
ought to be; I keep running into them far more often than I feel I should;
[[Vanilla Ice]] is one such article. I have a feeling this is because people
find level-2 headings are too big (the same reason in the early days of HTML
a lot of people used <h3> instead of <h1>), but I really don't have any
actual idea why this is happening.
The most straightforward explanation is that most editors have never
even heard of the MoS, let alone read it, and just choose styles
randomly, a la myspace. Many don't even try to mimic the style already
found in an article, they just start typing away. Fortunately, they
rarely if ever fight to keep the stylistic randomness, so fixing is an
easy way for gnomes to rack up edits. :-)
Stan