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::Except it's not an error, but a stylistic choice. At least in formal American English titling, verbs, no matter how small, are always capitalized in titles. It's only prepositions, conjunctions and articles which aren't captialized in titles (unless they're the first word of a title). As an American, I'd definitely say ''I Am a Dalek'', is the capitalization I'd view as most correct for a book. Some British style guides also recommend this usage also, although admittedly the British do tend to prefer sentence case over title case. In any event, it's definitely not a ''grammatical error'' but merely a stylistic choice. See [[wikipedia:Title case#Headings and publication titles]]. '''[[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>]] 08:03, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | ::Except it's not an error, but a stylistic choice. At least in formal American English titling, verbs, no matter how small, are always capitalized in titles. It's only prepositions, conjunctions and articles which aren't captialized in titles (unless they're the first word of a title). As an American, I'd definitely say ''I Am a Dalek'', is the capitalization I'd view as most correct for a book. Some British style guides also recommend this usage also, although admittedly the British do tend to prefer sentence case over title case. In any event, it's definitely not a ''grammatical error'' but merely a stylistic choice. See [[wikipedia:Title case#Headings and publication titles]]. '''[[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>]] 08:03, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:::Although this site gives the cover with the upper case, other sites give it with the lower case, such as [[Wikipedia:I am a Dalek|Wikipedia]] and the external links listed there. [[User:Doug86|Doug86]] 08:45, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | :::Although this site gives the cover with the upper case, other sites give it with the lower case, such as [[Wikipedia:I am a Dalek|Wikipedia]] and the external links listed there. [[User:Doug86|Doug86]] 08:45, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::::Regardless... the book cover lists it ''very'' clearly as "I Am a Dalek", and that's what the article should read as. Who cares what Wikipedia chooses to use? -- [[User:Sulfur|sulfur]] 11:18, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | ::::Regardless... the book cover lists it ''very'' clearly as "I Am a Dalek", and that's what the article should read as. Who cares what Wikipedia chooses to use? Note: They also have a different cover. Look at it closely. -- [[User:Sulfur|sulfur]] 11:18, March 10, 2010 (UTC) | ||
