Tokle
Joined 14 March 2006
Latest comment: 18 years ago by Zhaladshar in topic History of the Wars
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History of the Wars
editHi, Tokle! I noticed you're doing a lot of work on History of the Wars. Thanks for getting involved in this project! I was wondering, though, why you moved all the pages from History of the Wars to History of the wars. I can find no online source that has the latter capitalization. Are you working from a hard copy text that has this capitalization scheme? If not, would it be possible to move the pages back to match modern day capitalization conventions? Thanks and welcome to Wikisource!—Zhaladshar (Talk) 18:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- I read in the style guidlines that we are not supposed to used capitalizations other than on the first word. "Note: There are guidelines for page titles. Sentence style is preferred (only the first letter of the title capitalised), except where a word is an exception to regular capitalisation (like "eBay")." from Help:Adding texts. --Tokle 19:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sentence form is preferred for all titles, such that only the first word is typically capitalized (This is the title). However, the original capitalisation should be respected where known.
- I see where the confusion might lie. What this says is that unless we have a particular scheme to go by, we should only capitalize the first word. This should probably be rewritten because in 99% of all cases we have a scheme to go by (the way the book actually capitalizes its title). Basically, since we have a source text that has a particular method of capitalization (in this case, History of the Wars), we should use that instead of capitalizing only the first element. Sorry about the ambiguity.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 19:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Allright, no problem. But how can a published work not have "a scheme to go by"? If it is published then it would be published under a title, right? --Tokle 19:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- There are some instances where we have to create an ad hoc title ourselves. Many letters, for example. A user here is uploading suicide letters. These would not have any title given by its writer, since it isn't exactly a literary, published work. When this happens, we must give it our own title. Also, many speeches do not have titles (as far as we can discern), so we must give our own titles to them. This is where we would not have a set "scheme to go by."—Zhaladshar (Talk) 22:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Allright, no problem. But how can a published work not have "a scheme to go by"? If it is published then it would be published under a title, right? --Tokle 19:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- I see where the confusion might lie. What this says is that unless we have a particular scheme to go by, we should only capitalize the first word. This should probably be rewritten because in 99% of all cases we have a scheme to go by (the way the book actually capitalizes its title). Basically, since we have a source text that has a particular method of capitalization (in this case, History of the Wars), we should use that instead of capitalizing only the first element. Sorry about the ambiguity.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 19:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)