https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38487

--- Comment #8 from Michael M. <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> [...] I'm not sure people actually want uglier wikitext.

My suggestion was to remove <big> completely, not to replace it with (I agree
with you) ugly HTML. I can only see to reasons to user bigger font size than
usual:
* headlines, these should use == ... ==, not <big>
* texts in other scripts that are hard to read in normal font size (like
Arabic), these should have a lang="..." attribute, handle bidi correctly, etc.
Adding some CSS to make them a bit bigger doesn't make things worse (it's
inside a template in most cases anyway)

This seems to be not only my opinion: en.wikipedia adds a button for <small> to
the old toolbar, but not one for <big> [1], the same is true for a gadget on
de.wikipedia [2]

[1] [[MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js]]
[2] [[de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/Extra-Editbuttons]]

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