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Throughout the times, we've been consistently inconsistent with the use of capitalization, in article title and content. Moreover, we do not seem to have a strong foundation about capitalization in our [[TSW:MOS|manual of style]]. A minor example is [[Loves to Swim]] trait. In the game, the proper style is "Loves To Swim," but the acceptable title naming convention would be "Loves to Swim." But, why do we always have to capitalize trait names? Another more apparent example is some articles have careers and skills written in lowercase, while some others are capitalized. Neither is incorrect as it seems, because we don't enforce capitalization of these terms because we have no reason to, and on the other hand, we capitalize them because we're used to doing this. Sometimes we write "[[Scuba Diving]]" to refer to the skill, but sometimes we write "scuba diving" or "scuba dive" to refer to the activity. Writing "Scuba Dive" would be wrong because that's not the name of the skill.
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:This is just me making an educated guess, but I believe the "Great" in "Alexander the Great" is to put emphasis on the word "Great". "I am Great." Much like the "Trouble with a capital T" came about, or how [[wikipedia:God|God]] is capitalized. So perhaps "Paper Girl" is to put emphasis that Nancy was a newspaper delivery girl and not some random townie? --I am [[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] [[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF"><sup>Talk to me!</sup></span>]] [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F"><sub>See what I have done</sub></span>]] 02:36, August 30, 2015 (UTC)
==Reviving==
It appears as though a consensus did form here in favor of some standard. However, what is less clear is whether that standard should be towards "capitalized by default" or "lowercase by default." On top of that, there are specific circumstances under which it would make sense to deviate from the default. So first, I think we should decide whether we want to capitalize by default, or not.
My own viewpoint is that we should use lowercase by default. There would be exceptions to this, but I think the majority of examples should not be capitalized. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LiR</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] • [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 02:53, January 15, 2016 (UTC)
==Closure==
As mentioned above, there is agreement that a change is needed, but no firm agreement in which direction the change should occur. Therefore, there is insufficient support to act at this time. Users should continue to follow the current Manual of Style, and interpret these questions in their own way and in following other practices on the wiki. Over time, a more concrete style may evolve naturally, or else this matter can be brought up for discussion again in another thread. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LiR</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] • [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 15:16, March 11, 2016 (UTC)
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