Talk:Quarterlife

Capitalisation

As per Wikipedia's policy regarding such matters, and a personal pet peeve of mine, I am changing "quarterlife" to "Quarterlife". See also: User Talk:Ctjf83#Quarterlife --Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 17:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I copy and pasted the convo to make it one piece and easier for people to read Ctjf83Talk 18:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Copied from our talk pages

Please leave it as a small "q". You're right, normally proper nouns use capital letters, but if that is how NBC types it, then that is how it should be. It is in the same fashion as the small "i" for i wireless Ctjf83^talk 06:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to correspond with me. NBC, a unit of General Electric Co., has many television programs with unconventional grammar. Two other GE programs that come to mind are "Amne$ia", which airs on NBC's namesake channel, and "PSYCH" on GE's USA Network. Both of the aforementioned programs have respective articles on Wikipedia.org, under the titles "Amnesia (game show)" and "Psych", respectively. A few instances of unconventional grammar on this website I am indifferent to are "iPod" and "eBay". If I had my way they would be referred to as "IPod" and "Ebay", but because a capital letter exists in the original, it is sufficient in taking the role of a capital letter. Most media can get away with leaving it lowercase because AP Style, which most media outlets use, dictates that quotation marks be placed around the titles of television series. These quotation marks draws attention to the phrase they surround, just like the proper capitalisation. With the exception of NBC's documentation, all news media have one thing in common — they capitalise the first letter of "Quarterlife" when placed at the beginning of sentences and headlines. --Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 03:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

So are we discussing if it should be a capital or lowercase "q" or were you just informing me of other incidences? Ctjf83^talk 07:53, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I was merely explaining my rationale for making the change, and describing what other publications do. There is even a Wikipedia policy that agrees with me.--Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 13:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I disagree with that MOS, and think it should go by how NBC writes it. Never-the-less, it's also not something I'm going to strongly defend, or even worry about now, so if you want to change it back, you can, and I will leave it Ctjf83Talk 17:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I am not a fan of Wikipedia's rules either, but I'll use them to get my way. You might think i'm a politician.--Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 19:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

LOL, well apparently the show was crap, cause it is already canceled, so I don't care what happens on the page now! Ctjf83Talk 19:07, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

What about italics, at least? MMetro (talk) 01:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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