Questions tagged [capitalization]
For questions related to the use and misuse of capitalization in text on Stack Exchange.
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Inconsistent capitalization of links in top bar dialogs [duplicate]
There are a couple of links in various dialogs in the top bar, and the capitalization isn't consistent; some of them are all lower case, some are sentence cased (the latter is the new standard). From ...
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Is the language name case sensitive for syntax highlighting?
I often use the syntax-highlighting feature of Stack Exchange in order to make my code easier to read.
```lang-python
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
```
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
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Capitalize the word "markdown" in formatting tips and editing help
When editing a post (old or new editor likewise), there is a button to get formatting tips. The page about tables has the word "markdown" written in lower case:
The same issue also appears ...
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Capitalization of "site" in the Data Explorer's footer
There's a small capitalization inconsistency in the footer between the main site and the Data Explorer.
On SE the footer has the word "Site" capitalized while it's written "site" ...
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Why are tooltips for bare links to SE posts (in comments) not capitalized despite the actual posts being capitalized?
When posting links to SE posts in comments, where links are not converted to links with titles, the tooltips for those links are not capitalized.
For example, this is a bare link with an uncapitalized ...
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Typo in today's podcast - Github should be GitHub
If you notice How an average programmer became Github’s CTO, both the title and the body of the post have Github written with only one capital letter while the usual styling of the name should be ...
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Should the default edit summaries be in sentence case?
I'm not entirely au fait with the site's inner workings so I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature-request or if it's actually status-bydesign, hence the open question.1
The default edit summaries are ...
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Capitalization issue in the answer sorting menu
In the answer sorting menu, "Highest Score" is in title case, whereas the other two options are in sentence case:
The screenshot provided in Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: ...
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Capitalizing issue in the header pages
In the header's "review queues" drop-down menu, in the link text of "all queues" and "tools", the first character is a capital letter:
But in the "achievements"...
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Improve Meta awareness banner on private beta sites
Sites in private beta (current example – screenshot for when it reaches public beta) have a yellow banner on all pages making users aware of the Meta site:
got a question about the site itself? ...
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Is it Help Center, Help center, or help center?
What is the correct casing for help center? If we look at the help center we find the heading in sentence casing with only the first word capitalized (Help center) but if we look further down we see ...
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Tooltip for Talkative/Outspoken badge indicators in moderator dashboard not capitalized
The moderator dashboard has two indicators, a bronze and a silver dot, which are shown if the moderator has the Talkative resp. Outspoken badge. People have questioned their usefulness before (1, 2), ...
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Tool tip for "No hats for me, please" button needs to be in sentence case
The tool tip for the button No hats for me, please isn't in sentence case and reads as:
opt out of Winter Bash
To comply with Stacks standards, which require sentence case for UI elements, it needs ...
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Magic link capitalization
Since the current Stack Exchange guideline requires capitalization for links, should we also capitalize (I think we should) the result of magic links?
E.g., hence using [edit] will result in Edit ...
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"Cancel" not capitalized in the self-answer to your own question field
When you press the button to self-answer your question, you get a pop-up that looks like this:
Notice how cancel is not capitalized.
Stacks requires the menu items be in sentence case, so this should ...
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Case inconsistency with titles of review queues
There is inconsistency with review queue titles' case. On the Review queues page, all of titles' first characters are only capital letters.
When navigating to individual review page, such as ...
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Sentence caps for the flags in your flag history
On Stack Overflow, your flag history shows flags you've raised with proper capitalization:
Whereas on all other sites, like on Meta, the flags aren't capitalized:
That makes it inconsistent, and I ...
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Capitalization of post action links is causing multiple rows of links
Just now, all the post action links at the bottom of a post suddenly are capitalized and slightly bigger. Which in general is nice, but sometimes they're now in double rows, and inconsistently too:
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Could we have an official preference on English question title capitalization? [duplicate]
The consensus on the preferred capitalization of English question titles in the Stack Exchange network is sentence case (Would this be an OK example?), not title case (Would This Be an OK Example?). ...
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Improve election results message
When an election is finished, the following message is shown:
The results of this election can be viewed online via OpaVote.Download the election data and use OpenSTV for windows or mac to audit ...
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What is the proper capitalization of "Question" and "Answer"?
Basically, I've been capitalizing Question and Answer when referring to Stack Exchange Questions and Answers - that is, the pieces of content on the site - to distinguish them from just questions and ...
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Capitalization inconsistencies between the favicon.ico and icon-16.png pictures for several non-designed sites
Well this is very unimportant, but captured my attention.
Linguistics.SE favorite icon in browser capitalises only the L, but in Tabs Outliner (just installed) capitalises all the three letters.
I ...
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Inconsistency for "cancel" button on question delete popup
Trying to delete your own question when it has answers shows me a popup:
The "cancel" link (button?) is written in lower case. In the same time while editing the "Cancel" link is started from the ...
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Missing capital in "info" tab of tag page [duplicate]
Very very minor issue, but at some point, a capital "I" went missing in the "info" tab below, whereas all the other tabs are capitalized. Happens on the 4-5 sites I've tested, likely on all others. It ...
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Download software for windows or mac, or Windows or Mac? [closed]
After an election ends (example), there's a banner offering readers to download a software to audit the results. However, the names of the two platforms, windows and mac, aren't correctly capitalized ...
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Inconsistent tooltip capitalisation on question pages
The capitalisation of tooltips on question pages is quite inconsistent.
Looking, for instance, at the featured Meta Stack Overflow question "Take the 2019 Developer Survey", many inconsistencies can ...
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Capitalized "Edit" and "Delete" buttons for comments are inconsistent with other UI elements
Just recently the Edit and Delete buttons for comments went capitalized, while most other buttons (links) remain completely lowercase. This creates an inconsistency in UI.
Can we either get back edit ...
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Capitalize "your reputation" in topbar tooltip
Most tooltips in the topbar are capitalized:
But not the reputation:
Let's capitalize your reputation!
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Bug in CSS for side menu while editing profiles in Spanish and Portuguese sites (inter alia)
You should not be applying the capitalize text-transform on international sites, because that’s wrong “culturally inappropriate” for those languages. This is because you have a bug in the last line ...
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Winterbash or Winter Bash?
From the creators of The Space In Stack Overflow, and its sequel The Space In Stack Exchange, comes an all-new production…
Yeah, should I put a space in "Winterbash"? Or are they interchangeable? The ...
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stackoverflow.email incorrectly capitalises link as StackOverflow.com
At the top of stackoverflow.email, there is a link to Stack Overflow, however the link is shown as ‘StackOverflow.com’.
However, this capitalisation is incorrect, based on the Trademark Guidance.
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Movies & TV site have inconsistent display with other communities [closed]
I see an inconsistency issue in the Movies & TV site's question page compared with other Stack Exchange communities.
Right-hand side bar section titles in CAPS.
In the right-hand side bar ...
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Update capitalisation in footer copyright of Area 51 to match sites
The capitalisation of "Stack Exchange" in the footer's copyright on the sites was corrected, per this Meta discussion:
Stack Exchange should be capitalized in the copyright.
However, the Area 51 ...
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Update capitalisation in footer copyright of SEDE to match sites
The capitalisation of "Stack Exchange" in the footer's copyright on the sites was corrected, per this Meta discussion:
Stack Exchange should be capitalized in the copyright.
However, the Stack ...
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Stack Exchange API page should have proper capitalization
On the Stack Exchange API page, it says
When it’s rendered, it’s all lowercase. However, it’s really
Get Started With Our API
So could the CSS be changed from
.introtext{
color: #3a6da6;...
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capitalize merge notice [duplicate]
... please. the sentence ("this question was merged...") should really start with a capital letter.
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"[Edit]" shortlink is changed to lowercase at the begining of a sentence
The comment below this post contains a sentence starting with "[Edit]".
The system changes it to a lower case 'edit'.
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Stack Exchange should be capitalized in the copyright
In the footer of every Stack Exchange site, it says:
site design / logo © 2014 stack exchange inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required
I think "stack exchange" ...
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Capitalize and punctuate "let us continue this discussion in chat"
Stack Exchange has a feature to help move extended discussions out of comments and into chat, but when you use it, it automatically writes the following message for you:
let us continue this ...
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Auto-capitalization of question titles
Would it be possible to implement an auto-correction mechanism on the title box to make the first word always capitalized? It's not a big deal, but it could help those who are not familiar with ...
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suggested edits purely consisting of fixing capitalization (i -> I)?
So I came across the first one which changed a few "i" into "I" and rejected it for being too minor, then came across another one - looks like there's a user that's been doing this for a while based ...
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"got a question about the site itself?" should be capitalized [duplicate]
On a beta site such as Beer.StackExchange, you would see
got a question about the site itself? meta.beer is the place to talk about things like what questions are appropriate, what tags we should ...
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Help center uncapitalized letter AND typo: "Note: deleted questions do not... so you if you..."
Towards the bottom of the Deleted Questions page of the Help Center is the following sentence:
Note: deleted questions do not appear in search results, so you if you
wish to later undelete a ...
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Selecting multiple values when editing posts
When editing post, is it possible to select multiple text items e.g. "dont" or "i" and replace with a different value (in this case "don't" or "I")?
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Please capitalize "muslims" in the description of Islam.SE on StackExchange.com
I noticed a small typo here:
https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic
Q&A for muslims, experts in Islam, and those interested in learning
more about Islam
Please capitalize "...
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Capitalize HTML, XML, etc
I have a question about editing. When I edit, I am in the habit of capitalizing certain acronyms. Mainly HTML, XML, and CSS. However, I see these un-capitalized so often that I was wondering if they ...
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Could the words in the "Title" box when one is asking a question be properly capitalized? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could we have proper casing in the question title watermark?
I requested on Meta EL&U that the words in the Title box be capitalized properly, seeing as how we are a site ...
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BLOCK QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS
RECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT THIS QUESTION WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER — BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF ...
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