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america
Should the word america be capatalized? As it is a noun?
William One Sac 11:33, 1 May 2008 (CDT)
- I see what you mean, of course. The actual book doesn't use any capital letters in the title, but spells it like that, with all lower case. I think Amazon.com writes the title normally, with upper case where one would expect. Since English isn't my first language, I think you're probably in a better position to consider what is the more natural spelling here, according to the context and so on (encyclopedic article). Maybe it's a 'style' issue (I know that Wikipedia has a fairly long and detailed manual of style, and I understand that other encyclopedias and 'similar' works also have such style manuals, that I think the Wikipedia style manual is partly based on).
- About style manuals, my impression is MediaWiki wikis come with default style manuals, since tinWiki's style manual seems quite similar, on some points, to the Wikipedia one. My impression is that many places have the name Wikipedia just been replaced with the name tinWiki. I haven't read the tinWiki style manual that closely, yet, I must admit, so it's even possible there's something about this type of issue right here, in the tinWiki style guide. But I'm guessing this is a so specific topic that it's probably some 'sub topic' in a 'sub topic' in style guides that are fairly detailed, and I don't know if the tinWiki one goes that far into details. It's possible it does, though. Later on, I think it would be great to have one or two people who were really 'into' style and such, and who could 'fine comb' the style guide here and maybe make changes if necessary, and also be in like a tinWiki 'style user group' or some such thing. I am admittedly a bit of a nit picker, but maybe we should have someone here who is even 'worse'. :-) lol Optimist 16:01, 1 May 2008 (CDT)
