Subject: Titles again. (Attn. wiki-editors!)
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Posted on: 2013-03-28 21:34:00 UTC

I feel like it's been a while since I last ranted posted about this. I mainly feel this way because I notice that many of you are not paying attention to the treatment of titles in your wiki edits. So, a brief refresher course about how titles are set off from other text:

Titles of long works, such as novels, feature films, video games/game franchises, and TV series, are italicized. On the wiki, you do this with two pairs of single-quotes, like so: ''Title Goes Here''. Note that these are not the same as "double-quotes."

Note that titles of book series are sometimes italicized, sometimes not. It seems to depend on whether it's considered an official title for the whole series or just a handy nickname for it, but I couldn't say how to tell the difference just by looking. I usually look it up on Wikipedia if I'm not sure.

Titles of short works, such as individual TV episodes, PPC missions, and most fanfics, are set off by pairs of either 'single-' or "double-quotes," depending on your brand of English usage. On the wiki, you do this the same way you do everywhere else.

So, now you know. {= D Please pay attention to this. It will make my life easier, because I will come in and clean up after you if I must.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this. We can talk about how titles are capitalized, too, if anyone wants to, but for now I'll just point out that forms of the verb "to be" are always capitalized, even if they're short, and "is" is a form of "to be."

Thanks!

~Neshomeh

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