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&nbsp how do I go about changing this? --Stardizzy2 22:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Manually like most things I'm afraid. Putting the phrase Publishers Summary into the search bar works to bring up all the pages with the error (have just done so, I'm surprised at how many pages have it, and how many I've edited and not caught! Focused on other things probably.). --Tangerineduel 13:45, 1 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? The Librarian 22:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

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. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 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? The Librarian 22:29, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

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. 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. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 13:57, February 6, 2010 (UTC)