Title case

[Phil Bull]

Hi Allan,

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:26 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> I have a slightly anal question for you all! Is there any policy on what 
> method of capitalisation should be used for titles (and subtitles) in 
> the wiki?
> 
> Now, I'm not saying that we should get overly anal here. I don't want to 
> go overboard when it comes to formatting rules. Contributing should be 
> fun, right?! At the same time, it does look better for individual pages 
> to be consistent in terms of their use of capitalisation. Further, in 
> cases where there are pages with multiple different title case styles 
> being used (like the community front page for instance! [1]), a policy 
> on what style is best would be useful to editors.
> 
> Wikipedia has some good advice on different title case styles [2]. My 
> favourite is would be to use sentence style titles. Here, 'only the 
> first word and proper nouns are capitalized'. For example: 'Switching 
> from another operating system'. Why? I think it looks good. Plus, it's 
> simple to do - you don't need to remember or understand special 
> grammatical rules about articles, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.
> 
> Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Is there something in the 
> WikiGuide that I've missed?

We normally refer to the GNOME Style Guide for this sort of thing. (I
should probably make a note of this in the Wiki Guide.)

You can find the relevant section here [1] (look for the "Headings"
section).

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en

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