[DISCUSSION] Wiki editing: capitalizing Waze noun phrases
Capitalizing noun phrases for specific Waze functionalities
The USA Wiki Editing article doesn't use the word "capitalization" once, but rather refers to the Wikipedia guidelines that have an entire article on the use of capital letters. That article does discuss capitalization of proper nouns and noun phrases, but the discussion is not exhaustive.
I would like to open a discussion around our capitalization of nouns and noun phrases for specific Waze functionality. For example:
major highway or Major Highway?
private road or Private Road?
area place or Area Place?
entry point or Entry Point?
junction box or Junction Box?
My initial sense is that, for the purpose of our wiki, these terms should be treated as proper noun phrases and capitalized because to do otherwise risks confusion. For example, what if we wrote:
"We should prefer junction boxes to box junctions."
"Although it's a major highway through the reserve, it should still be a private road."
"Was the driver's entry point at the hospital complex at the entry point or somewhere else?"
It would be clearer to the reader if we wrote instead:
"We should prefer Junction Boxes to box junctions."
"Although it's a major highway through the reserve, it should still be a Private Road."
"Was the driver's entry point at the hospital complex at the Entry Point or somewhere else?"
Granted these are contrived examples, but not wildly so, and they are for the purposes of illustration.
Perspectives welcome!
The USA Wiki Editing article doesn't use the word "capitalization" once, but rather refers to the Wikipedia guidelines that have an entire article on the use of capital letters. That article does discuss capitalization of proper nouns and noun phrases, but the discussion is not exhaustive.
I would like to open a discussion around our capitalization of nouns and noun phrases for specific Waze functionality. For example:
major highway or Major Highway?
private road or Private Road?
area place or Area Place?
entry point or Entry Point?
junction box or Junction Box?
My initial sense is that, for the purpose of our wiki, these terms should be treated as proper noun phrases and capitalized because to do otherwise risks confusion. For example, what if we wrote:
"We should prefer junction boxes to box junctions."
"Although it's a major highway through the reserve, it should still be a private road."
"Was the driver's entry point at the hospital complex at the entry point or somewhere else?"
It would be clearer to the reader if we wrote instead:
"We should prefer Junction Boxes to box junctions."
"Although it's a major highway through the reserve, it should still be a Private Road."
"Was the driver's entry point at the hospital complex at the Entry Point or somewhere else?"
Granted these are contrived examples, but not wildly so, and they are for the purposes of illustration.
Perspectives welcome!
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