CapitalizationMan

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CapitalizationMan, it's probably worth pointing out that per Wikipedia's Manual of Style, both "black" and "Black" are permissible. As editors are encouraged to maintain a style unless there's a substantive reason for a change, these repeated changes will probably bring you into conflict with other editors. Sdrqaz (talk) 19:46, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

It's done haphazardly and if black is capitalized white should be right next to it. CapitalizationMan (talk) 19:57, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Your edits regarding racial labels

Hello,

I've noticed that virtually all of your edits so far have been to change the capitalization of (mostly) [B/b]lack, and sometimes also [W/w]hite. Have you read what Wikipedia's Manual of Style has to say on the subject?

Basically, in an RFC a couple years ago it was decided that either Black and White, or black and white were acceptable, but not Black and white; and that articles should be internally consistent. Also, it's long been a principle of Wikipedia that where multiple styles are accepted by the community (i.e. different referencing styles, or national varieties of English) whichever was present in the article first should prevail.

Some of your changes are consistent with this guidance and some are not. Fixing Black and white to be either both Black and White or both black and white is fine; but changing an article that uses Black and White to use black and white (or vice versa) is not. I also would advise you to read WP:POINT, which is one of our behavioral guidelines which some may perceive you to be coming close to violating. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:29, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes I'm making sure they're consistent, I have left two pages alone because both were capitalized throughout the page. CapitalizationMan (talk) 21:01, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

By the way, which changes did you think weren't consistent?

The only thing I can think of is that I largely left links alone. CapitalizationMan (talk) 21:05, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

In this edit to Alaska, you changed both Black and White to black and white, same with California. I haven't checked every single edit, so I don't know about them all. I know your change to Indiana was fine, as the only other place where black was not the beginning of a sentence it was already lower case, so your edit there made the article internally consistent. I mostly wanted to make sure you were aware of the guidelines, as the change to Alaska did go against them. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:12, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Are you looking at the entire page, or just the edited section? I am not saying you're wrong, but I'm looking at the entire page before I make a change.

It would be strange if it was White or Black in one section and black and white halfway down the page. CapitalizationMan (talk) 22:03, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Please also read MOS:VAR. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:16, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Is there a 'style' that allows capitalization for white but not black or vice versa? Please read my statements before replying to them. CapitalizationMan (talk) 22:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)