Gerard Meijssen wrote:
However, your arguments deal with circumstances where
a word might be written
in a capitalised manner. When you look for the word in a dictionary it is not
capitalised. The point is we use the name of the language as it is written and
the word on its own is italiano.
But now we were discussing whether the language names should be
capitalized in the interwiki link list. There, they are not "on their
own", but "members of a list". And apparantly, both the French and
Italian Wikipedia capitalize list members. Exactly the same rules
apply to the Scandinavian languages.
Another question is whether headwords (titles) in Wikipedia articles
should always be capitalized, as they are now. This is not the case
in dictionaries, and not in some encyclopedias. For example, in the
Danish (1915)
http://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/1/0927.html "apostoliske
Fædre" is not capitalized, but in the Swedish (1904)
http://runeberg.org/nfba/0681.html "Apostoliska fäder" is
capitalized.
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