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Title Capitalization

I think we're capitalizing headings and page titles incorrectly. I've noticed that Wikipedia, OblivioWiki, and other wikis have said that titles should be lower case unless the word or phrase in the title is always capitalized. What are your opinions on conforming to the styles of some of the other sites? [1] [2] --Aristeo 22:30, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

Often the capitalization is done to match that used in the game, which I think should be maintained. For example, in the names of quests everything tends to be capitalized; names of effects are also capitalized in the game. --Nephele 22:29, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

I know what you mean. For example, "Repair Hammer" is capitalized in game, and I feel the same way about keeping the same capitalization as the game. What I'm referring to, are non-game related headings and article titles. For instance, I could have capitalized the name of this discussion in one of two ways:

1. ==Title capitalization==, or
2. ==Title Capitalization==

My question is: Which one of these are considered proper? (same thing goes with article titles) --Aristeo 22:34, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

I don't think there is a proper way to capitalise, but a choice to do it or not. In discussion pages it is quite clear, it should be the choice of whoever opens a new thread to use the title he/she wishes. I the case of article pages, there should be a site-wise policy on this. We should choose between one or the other choice, although the easiest would be to choose the most used, so that the editing required will be minimal. --DrPhoton 11:27, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

I vote title caps as the standard. My very quick survey indicates that's the way we're doing things now. And as previously noted it's often for consistency with the way the game does thing. Even for pages where it seems optional (e.g., Morrowind Mod:Mod Conflicts) title caps feel much more natural to me, since such pages typically are articles and the titles of articles should use title caps. --Wrye 17:46, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

In my opinion, heading caps should be the default, but should not be required on a global basis. Editors should respect capitalization trends that occur on similar pages (ex. "Detailed Walkthrough" is always capped), and also respect that sometimes heading capitalization is not ideal (ex. "Any changes will be visible immediately" on the bottom of the page is not capitalized). When possible, title capitalization should follow the format that we are most using (==Title Capitalization==), unless we have a reason to do otherwise.

As for page titles, I can't think of an instance where we would be better off using uncapped titles over capped titles. In general, we should also used capped titles unless we have a reason to uncap something. --Aristeo 14:45, 24 August 2006 (EDT)

Title Caps Are Preferred -- Looking at the complex rules for capitalization that some of the other Wikis have I begin to wonder why they don't prefer all caps. Also agree that heading caps should be flexible in this regard. -- DaveH 15:26, 24 August 2006 (EDT)

So it looks like we all want things the way they are, in regard to capitalization. :P --Aristeo 10:43, 25 August 2006 (EDT)