User blog:MasterBroccoli/Naming and Linking (Capital Letters)

Hello everyone!

Something is bugging me here (since like forever), and now that I've been less active recently it somehow irks me even more, so I want to discuss it. Basically, it is about capitalization.

Our understanding is to use capital letters in headlines and article names.

Like this: Random Map

The thing is, when I want to link that page in a floating text and want to link properly, I must take a detour and type the link like this: random map, because naturally, there is no reason to write this term in capital letters. Also, just typing random map does link to the desired page, but over a redirect, which is - to me - not a solution. I find that very annoying. Same goes for God Power, Major God, Minor God, ect., so basically summarizing pages that are no proper names and hence require no capitalization.

The wikipedia just uses a capital letter for the very first character and writes every other word in lowercase (except for proper names, of course), making linking much easier. That would result in the pages being named 'Random map', 'God power', 'Major god', ect. With page names like this, typing random map does link to the desired page directly. My opinion is we should change the page names so they are easier linkable and follow the wikipedia guidelines.

By the way, the same goes for headings in articles. 'Civilization Bonuses', 'Further Statistics', ect. would have to be renamed to 'Civilization bonuses', 'Further statistics', ect. The wikipedia also does that.

I am aware of the amount of work a change like this brings (we do have bots able to help out there, though, so I think is is manageable). I am also aware that our recently made decision concerning category naming dissents with this idea and must be reconsidered in this regard. I still think we should do that as there is no real reason to design our articles differently from what the wikipedia does.

Another thing: We agree to write proper names in uppercase, and we should. But what about words like 'Food', 'Age', ect.? I see them written is uppercase constantly (I write Age like this as well.), but I think it's wrong because they are just generic terms. One might argue about the Age, because it's an in-game concept, but what about other words like this (first of all the resources)?

In general, I think there are too many capital letters here for no good reason. When I started that post about the category names (which are all changed now), I obviously didn't think it through properly. That was my mistake - I consider it a mistake - and I am willing to fix this (with the help of a bot).

What I suggest here as a change is basically all according to our Manual of Style, which we apparently ignored for all those past years. The MoS suggests administrators may move articles without further notice if they do not follow the pattern, but this is a major change and I think we should discuss it.

Please voice your opinion.

As a final word I just want to say I am not very fond of capital letters and find it irritating enough the Latin alphabet has them at all.