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(English used to captalise all Nouns too. But we got lazy and stopped a couple of hundred years ago.)
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Because there were no rules to begin with. I thought Germans LIKED capital letters. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 23:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 
Because there were no rules to begin with. I thought Germans LIKED capital letters. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 23:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 
:And ve LIKE rules. So let's make some. :) Actually I was just whining because I reliably fail to guess the right capitalization on every attempt of including a category or template... but while we're at it...) I would suggest either all lowercase except for the first letter for all achievement pages, templates and categories - or British book title capitalization, i.e. everything uppercase except for common binding words like for, on, the, &c.pp. -- [[User:relet|relet]] 23:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 
:And ve LIKE rules. So let's make some. :) Actually I was just whining because I reliably fail to guess the right capitalization on every attempt of including a category or template... but while we're at it...) I would suggest either all lowercase except for the first letter for all achievement pages, templates and categories - or British book title capitalization, i.e. everything uppercase except for common binding words like for, on, the, &c.pp. -- [[User:relet|relet]] 23:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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::Hee hee, I think that ''is'' what we are mostly doing: all lower case except the first ''or'' 'book capitalization'.  But we're doing it randomly. I always guess wrong, too. Sometimes it takes me five guesses before I finally open another tab and look it up. If it were possible to '''move''' categories, I would long ago have moved all the categories to match the Page Titles. But page titles look better capitalized, so I'm not going to move them to match the categories. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 23:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Because there were no rules to begin with. I thought Germans LIKED capital letters. -Robyn 23:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

And ve LIKE rules. So let's make some. :) Actually I was just whining because I reliably fail to guess the right capitalization on every attempt of including a category or template... but while we're at it...) I would suggest either all lowercase except for the first letter for all achievement pages, templates and categories - or British book title capitalization, i.e. everything uppercase except for common binding words like for, on, the, &c.pp. -- relet 23:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hee hee, I think that is what we are mostly doing: all lower case except the first or 'book capitalization'. But we're doing it randomly. I always guess wrong, too. Sometimes it takes me five guesses before I finally open another tab and look it up. If it were possible to move categories, I would long ago have moved all the categories to match the Page Titles. But page titles look better capitalized, so I'm not going to move them to match the categories. -Robyn 23:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)