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::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) | ::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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