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I would like to make a formal proposal (this is it, FYI) to be voted on by the Halopedia community regarding the standard of titling articles. Halopedia has a problem in its titling standard, which I am responsible for as a result of goofing around in the wiki’s early days. Currently, the standard is to capitalize the first letter of every important word, the way one might for writing a newspaper headline, as opposed to the actual way that subjects are presented in canon. An example of this practice is the article “[[Moray Space Mine]]”, which is rendered in my copy of ''Halo: First Strike'' as “Moray space-mine”. Because of how the article is titled, its capitalization of the start of every word is retained in the article itself. This is a problem because Halopedia should accurately report on what is canon (or at least officially produced) rather than fanfiction. It may not be fanfiction in the usual sense of imagining stories or characters, but fan-created material to pretty up the look of canon should be equally unacceptable. I therefore propose that Halopedia adopt a standard of titling that incorporates the most accurate officially produced spellings in combination with basic grammar.
I would like to make a formal proposal (this is it, FYI) to be voted on by the Halopedia community regarding the standard of titling articles. Halopedia has a problem in its titling standard, which I am responsible for as a result of goofing around in the wiki’s early days. Currently, the standard is to capitalize the first letter of every important word, the way one might for writing a newspaper headline, as opposed to the actual way that subjects are presented in canon. An example of this practice is the article “[[Moray Space Mine]]”, which is rendered in my copy of ''Halo: First Strike'' as “Moray space-mine”. Because of how the article is titled, its capitalization of the start of every word is retained in the article itself. This is a problem because Halopedia should accurately report on what is canon (or at least officially produced) rather than fanfiction. It may not be fanfiction in the usual sense of imagining stories or characters, but fan-created material to pretty up the look of canon should be equally unacceptable. I therefore propose that Halopedia adopt a standard of titling that incorporates the most accurate officially produced spellings in combination with basic grammar.


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