[WikiEN-l] Counter-Intuitive Wikipedia Conventions, was naming conventio...

[JFrost8401 at aol.com]

In a message dated 04/06/03 14:14:45 GMT Daylight Time, fredbaud at ctelco.net 
writes:


> One of the counter-intuitive things a new Wikipedian has to adjust to is 
> the
> convention on capitalization of titles: Only the first word is capitalized
> unless it is a proper noun. This is not natural as all words in a title are
> conventionally capitalized. We do that so that links from within text do not
> need to be capitalized.
> 
> In the case of species names we are now making an exception, creating
> another counter-intuitive requirement: in text all words in the name of a
> species must be capitalized. Again in contradiction to expected usage.
> Having adopted the convention that in titles all words in a species name are
> capitalized we are now forced to have them capitalized in text in order that
> links work.
> 
> So we have three choices: put the titles of species in the usual first word
> only capitalized format; capitalize all words of a species name in text; or
> made a redirect for each species to the all caps format.
> 
> This is not a major issue with me. I guess I only want to see a definite
> convention established.
> 
> Fred

it has been and I'm following the agreed policy until a new agreed one 
replaces it.

Jim
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