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how do I go about changing this? --[[User:Stardizzy2|Stardizzy2]] 22:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC) | how do I go about changing this? --[[User:Stardizzy2|Stardizzy2]] 22:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC) | ||
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: Sorry Tangerineduel, I'm probably guilty here! not entirely though I hope. I had a look at what you said above ie type in Publishers Summary but it didnt lead me anywhere useful what have I done wrong now? [[User:The Librarian|The Librarian]] 22:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC) | : Sorry Tangerineduel, I'm probably guilty here! not entirely though I hope. I had a look at what you said above ie type in Publishers Summary but it didnt lead me anywhere useful what have I done wrong now? [[User:The Librarian|The Librarian]] 22:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
::Though, of course, it shouldn't be "Publisher's Summary", but "Publisher's summary". | ::Though, of course, it shouldn't be "Publisher's Summary", but "Publisher's summary". People wanna capitalize '''everything''' on this wiki, and I really don't understand why. We're using English here, people, not German. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 14:35, February 5, 2010 (UTC) | ||
: Regarding capitals,Ok guilty here to an extent. I suppose its because I see the particular headings as just that. Not sentences but stand alone 'phrases' on par with book or chapter headings. Am I wrong? [[User:The Librarian|The Librarian]] 22:29, February 5, 2010 (UTC) | : Regarding capitals,Ok guilty here to an extent. I suppose its because I see the particular headings as just that. Not sentences but stand alone 'phrases' on par with book or chapter headings. Am I wrong? [[User:The Librarian|The Librarian]] 22:29, February 5, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::I think you are, yes. | ::I think you are, yes. The convention on Wikipedia, Memory Alpha, and frankly any wiki on which I've spent any time is that only the first letter of a subhead is capitalized, unless an actual proper noun is included. [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Capitalization#Section_headings|Here's the rule from Wikipedia]]. This is consistent with every academic manual of style that I've ever consulted. If you have a subhead in an academic paper, you ''definitely'' do not ''Capitalize Every Word''. But it's true of less formal settings as well. It's the convention on most, but not all, modern newspapers, when titling their stories, and it certainly dominates the formats seen in most magazines. It is the ''general'' case of ''Doctor Who Magazine'' (see page 6 of DWM 417), although sometimes for purely stylistic reasons, they will have a mixed case title. But, of course, it's only the ''titles'' they tend to screw around with, not the subheads, as on page 16 of DWM 417. Point is, these aren't chapter headings and we're not writing books. They are ''subheads'' and we're writing ''articles''. The use of mixed (well, properly, ''title'') case makes us look like we're, well, '''confused'''. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 13:57, February 6, 2010 (UTC) |
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