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Sorting and capitalization

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SDL (talkcontribs)

Hi! I have two questions regarding style and sorting on this wiki, plus a little bonus query.

1) I am noticing that on a lot of pages, headers are written "Like This", instead of "Like this". I understand that capitalization-of-each-word is used in-game and that this should be respected (imo), but for text that are not game terms (such as "How To Obtain"), is it expected that these should also be capitalized? On other wikis I frequent, the expectation is to only capitalize proper nouns (such as game elements) and the initial letter (i.e. "How to obtain").

2) Considering more categories are up and running, should articles/pages that start with "The" be sorted by T, or by the initial word after "The"? For example, should "The ACME Shop" be sorted as "The ACME Shop" or "ACME Shop, The"?

3) I see that some text is capitalized. Is there any style guide that explains what elements should be capitalized?

SSkittle (talkcontribs)

1) Headers on this wiki have always had each word capitalized so the expectation would be to continue doing so.

2) Sorted by T would be best.

3) Not really. The capitalization seems to be where the item itself is being referred to or other wiki pages are being referenced.

SDL (talkcontribs)

For 3, I meant to write cursive! Sorry for the confusion.

SSkittle (talkcontribs)

Ah, okay. Cursive is generally used for effect names. Can't think of anything else right now.

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SDL (talkcontribs)

Hi! I noticed these two categories, and I'm wondering if they're ... the same? The categories in question are Category:Drinks and Category:Drink items.

I apologize if this is not the right place to ask questions to the community, but I couldn't see any other expected places.

SDL (talkcontribs)
SSkittle (talkcontribs)

Drinks and Drink items do seem to be the same. That discrepancy would have been from me just clicking things that were red and creating category pages without checking if one existed already. Drink items should be fine. Unremovable items and Unremovables do technically have a difference since the Unremovable category can also be assigned to pseudo items or skills but they would probably be better off just under one heading since there isn't really a good way to separate them when it's all one Unremovable category.

SDL (talkcontribs)

I see! Thank you for clarifying!

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