On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:29, Daniel Mayer wrote:
....., the instances where it would *actually* be a problem are vanishingly small. I've yet to hear of or think of an example, in fact (although I'm sure there are a few).
Here is some previous discussion and some examples (its all been said before); http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Feature_requests&o...
And the instances where capitalisation causes
problems are many.
Khendon (Jason Williams)
Only proper nouns and some other terms should be capitalized -- anything else is just incorrect grammar. We needn't encourage incorrect grammar.
One of the reasons for the automatic capitalization is that first words of sentences are capitalized. [[Capitalization]] should work the same way as [[capitalization]]. If we just added case sensitivity without extending other capabilities, then the previous sentence would have to be written "[[capitalization|Capitalization]] should work..." which is a bigger problem than the ones caused by lack of case sensitivity.
However, I too am annoyed by the lack of case sensitivity, so the addition of case sensitivity with automatic methods of avoiding [[uncap|Cap]] might be nice. For example, the software could render "[[capitalization]] should work..." as "Capitalization should work..." if it can tell that "[[capitalization]]" is at the beginning of a sentence. But that's difficult to do right 100% of the time.
Other solutions would have similar complexities.
In short, the status quo isn't perfect, but its consequences are simple and well-understood.
Other languages may have different priorities, of course.
--tc