Forum:Consistency with capitalization: Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

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>]]^{[[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] • [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]}''' 02:53, January 15, 2016 (UTC)