[WikiEN-l] Capitalised section headings

Peter Ansell ansell.peter at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 08:19:05 UTC 2007


On 05/09/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's bad?  I thought it was preferred...
>
> Ah. No, it's bad. From the WP:MOS:
>
> Wording
>
> In headings and subheadings:
>
>     * only the first letter of the first word, and the first letter of
> proper nouns are capitalized; all other letters are in lower case (for
> example, "Rules and regulations", not "Rules and Regulations");
>

Does the Manual Of Style need updating to reflect current practice?
Wikipedia generally puts out the idea that it is not static.

Peter



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