I never understood why the link is a pilcrow, but keeping it close to the symbol name always seemed logical to me. If your screen is wide, the right-hand side is not where your eyes or mouse are likely to be.

@adonovan can I take a crack at it even though it doesn't have a help wanted label just yet?

This ruleset seems to be the issue.

.Documentation-function h4,
.Documentation-type h4,
.Documentation-typeFunc h4,
.Documentation-typeMethod h4 {
  align-items: baseline;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

While this is useful for the "since version" display, it causes this alignment issue with other h4s. Empirically speaking, all h4s under func/type sections seem to have the class .Documentation-(function|type|typeFunc|typeMethod)Header. A tighter ruleset like this would probably work (would need to verify).

h4.Documentation-functionHeader,
h4.Documentation-typeHeader,
h4.Documentation-typeFuncHeader,
h4.Documentation-typeMethodHeader {
  align-items: baseline;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

can I take a crack at it even though it doesn't have a help wanted label just yet?

Please do! You should send your CL to @jba for review. Thanks.

Change https://go.dev/cl/574719 mentions this issue: static/frontend: position pilcrow right next to h4 header text