Carrie Albright

March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you may not know that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia, as you did in Neuter, makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. – i123Pie _bio^contribs 12:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Thank you for the link and your polite correction.

My apologies for the trouble I put you to.

Carrie

I went through no trouble, if I didn't tell you, you could have been blocked (by an admin). – i123Pie _bio^contribs 12:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Further research carried out

After reading through the Manual of Style, I can find no rule against capitalizing proper nouns such as languages or countries. I am not satisfied that the Wikipedian Manual of Style directly conflicts with this rule of conventional English grammar. I did find indirect support for capitalizing "Latin" in the Manual.

"Where native spellings in non-Latin scripts (such as Greek and Cyrillic) are given, they normally appear in parentheses, and are not italicized, even where this is technically feasible."

Note the capitalisation of Greek, Cyrillic and Latin in the phrase "non-Latin".

"When personified, season names may function as proper nouns, and they should then be capitalized"

Under the Capitalization article, I noted it said: "In English, the names of days of the week, months and languages are capitalized, as are demonyms like Englishman, Arab. In other languages, practice varies"

I most emphatically agree with the injunction against inconsistency, which is both the spirit and the letter of the Manual of Style. Thus, I would support "latin" --> "Latin" in the Neuter article.

If anyone can source a direct prohibition concerning such capitalizations on Wikipedia, I would be highly gratified. Thanking you in advance--Carrie Albright (talk) 15:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)