Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Typographical Guidelines/Disagree with bold+italic and code tag guidelines/reply (4)

I'm not sure what you're saying. Yes most people don't follow rules, but it can only help to develop the right rules. The more they make sense and are consistent with what people are used to (italics for variables, kbd as the tag for the keyboard input, etc.), the easier they are to follow.

I can live with bold and italic as your variable text rule if changing it will introduce inconsistency within your wiki. But extending the box and using <kbd> make sense, and over time the wiki will improve.