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-- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LostInRiverview</font>]]<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>''' 05:02, August 4, 2015 (UTC)
:General guidelines for capitalization would be a good thing to create. Personally, I believe that we should have things capitalized as they appear in-game, i.e. leave it as Nancy the Paper Girl, for two reasons - firstly, its just a personal preference, and secondly, capitalizing everything the same way as it appears in-game would save a lot of time thinking up specifics and would just create a general catch-all. It would still take a bit of effort, I've got no idea how various terms are treated in-game when they're in the middle of a sentence so somebody might have to look into that. {{WHsig|08:17, August 4, 2015 (UTC)}}
::In all series, interactions are capitalized like a title—every word is capitalized except prepositions. In game strings, every term is capitalized, so whenever you see the word "Trait," "Loves the Outdoors," "Hygiene," "Cooking," "Science," "Curious Family," and almost every single thing listed above, they're always capitalized. The goal here is to make our style consistent: capitalize all or nothing (with exceptions of course). I'm inclined to "capitalize nothing."
::I don't like to follow in-game style, which is to capitalize everything. Think of how the article titles now "Goth family" and "Singles household" but we then decide to change it back to "Goth Family" and "Singles Household," and then every occurrence in the paragraphs should also be changed. The general rule would be everything that has its own page would be capitalized in the paragraphs.
::I actually don't mind "Sim" being capitalized. I feel like "Sim" is kind of a special, made-up term that's unique to the series. Capitalizing "Sim" is generally acceptable and deemed correct somehow, even though we have no concrete reason for it. As for "WooHoo," I also think it's special because it's a unique made-up term that distinguishes it from an exclamation. You can argue my arguments though. This is just what I think about them. [[User:Nikel23|'''<span style="color:#007FFF; text-shadow: #ACE5EE 0 4px 4px;">Nikel</span>''']] [[User talk:Nikel23|<span style="color: #30D5C8 ; text-shadow: #00FFEF 0 4px 4px;"><sub>''Talk''</sub></span>]] <sub>–</sub> [[The Sims Wiki:Featured Media/Voting|<span style="color:red ; text-shadow:#E97451 0 4px 4px;"><sub>''Vote!''</sub></span>]] 02:00, August 5, 2015 (UTC)
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