On 9/5/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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"); Steve

On 9/5/07, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter(a)gmail.com> wrote: Uh, I think we're a long way short of consensus that we want to capitalise section headings. The Manual of Style is by definition prescriptive. Making big changes to it should be a last resort approached with caution. Steve

Zoney wrote: This was pretty well established as far back as 2002, at least as far as article titles are concerned. A Manual of Style is often a matter of choosing conventions from equally valid alternatives. To the extent that linkages will consider capitalised and non-capitalised as distinct it is important to choose a workable convention. By and large I think there are fewer ambiguities with a sentence style heading. A headline style can still have ambiguities in how we treat longer supportive words in a title. The other point is that according to the "Chicago Manual of Style" headline style headings are unique to English and Latin. Other languages all use sentence style, and we have many editors for whom English is not a native language. No-one should be criticised or punished for using the wrong heading style. Editors should just quietly change these headings without fuss when they are encountered. Some will try to change things back, but there's no need to use that as a basis for confrontation. Let them when they insist. In all likelihood if a large number of editors support the sentence style it will prevail anyways. Ec

On 9/6/07, Matthew Brown &lt;morven(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: One thing I've found even more perplexing than the prevalence of Headings Like This is the prevalence of level-three headings where level-2 headings ought to be; I keep running into them far more often than I feel I should; [[Vanilla Ice]] is one such article. I have a feeling this is because people find level-2 headings are too big (the same reason in the early days of HTML a lot of people used <h3> instead of <h1>), but I really don't have any actual idea why this is happening. Johnleemk

There are a few editors who go about enforcing this point of the MoS anyhow - I tend to capitalise against it, and they come along and fix it in every article I write like clockwork. As far as I know, nobody goes around editing actively against it, so things settle that way. WilyD On 9/5/07, Stan Shebs &lt;stanshebs(a)earthlink.net&gt; wrote: