I've been reading through a few of the questions on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and in many of them character and place names are rendered in italic type. I've never seen this usage anywhere else, but it's so common here it seems to be some kind of standard.
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Wow, and I thought I was pretty much the only one to do that.– Napoleon Wilson ModJan 7, 2014 at 0:18
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Its a way to differentiating a quote or film title or Important text from the remaining text. Its more an OP's or editors prefrense rather then standard. Some even use Bold for the same reason too.– Ankit Sharma ModJan 7, 2014 at 18:48
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@AnkitSharma, I'm not talking about titles, I'm talking about people's names. It's weird, but strangely common on this site.– TRiGJan 7, 2014 at 21:02
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@TRiG Important text covers character name too. Oops i also used italic here ;)– Ankit Sharma ModJan 7, 2014 at 21:07
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No, its just something that a few users do by their own personal preference.
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It seems very weird, and most distracting, but huh, each to his own, I suppose.– TRiGJan 6, 2014 at 23:39
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@TRiG Yet it is much better than either not being able to differetiate movie titles from running text or putting ugly "s in there. Yet I guess my way of using it for every kind of proper name might be a bit overkill. Still I like to recognize proper names easily. But like you said, to each his own and I don't usually change an OP's way of doing it when editing a post (apart from movie titles).– Napoleon Wilson ModJan 7, 2014 at 0:20
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Italicising names of works is normal, @ChristianRau. Standard practise. Italicising names of people and places within those works is weird. (But you're definitely not the only person I've seen doing it.)– TRiGJan 7, 2014 at 0:22
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True, but you also italicise words or names that you would like to emphasize, not just titles– TomJan 7, 2014 at 13:03