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Wiktionary:Information desk Aug 30th 2011, 01:52 ?: ← Older revision Revision as of 01:52, 30 August 2011 Line 1,279: Line 1,279: ::Seriously? That's the reason? Wow... '''''[[User:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">An</font>]] [[User talk:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">editor since 8.28.2011.</font>]]''''' 14:27, 29 August 2011 (UTC) ::Seriously? That's the reason? Wow... '''''[[User:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">An</font>]] [[User talk:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">editor since 8.28.2011.</font>]]''''' 14:27, 29 August 2011 (UTC) :::Well, I assume so. Someone creating a template has a choice to capitalize the first letter, or all of them, or none of them, or some weird set of them (like only the penultimate). The most natural choice seems to me to be to capitalize none of them, because it's easiest to type. You seem to think capitalizing the first is more natural: why? (Note that some of our template names ''are'' capitalized: one reason is to designate a pseudo[[namespace]], as for [[special:prefixindex/template:RQ:|the RQ: temnplates]] and [[special:prefixindex/template:R:|the R: templates]].)<span class="Unicode">&#x200b;—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 15:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC) :::Well, I assume so. Someone creating a template has a choice to capitalize the first letter, or all of them, or none of them, or some weird set of them (like only the penultimate). The most natural choice seems to me to be to capitalize none of them, because it's easiest to type. You seem to think capitalizing the first is more natural: why? (Note that some of our template names ''are'' capitalized: one reason is to designate a pseudo[[namespace]], as for [[special:prefixindex/template:RQ:|the RQ: temnplates]] and [[special:prefixindex/template:R:|the R: templates]].)<span class="Unicode">&#x200b;—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 15:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC)   + ::::I came from the other wiki where users ''never'' used lowercase in the template title. It was quite formal over there. '''''[[User:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">An</font>]] [[User talk:Since 8.28.2011|<font color="#DAA520">editor since 8.28.2011.</font>]]''''' 01:52, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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