The Elder Scrolls Wiki:Capitalization

This page discusses the use of upper and lower case in general across the OblivioWiki.

Summary
This is how case is handled on OblivioWiki:
 * Use normal English capitalization rules. Read them here if you are not familiar with them. Example: Birthsign quick reference
 * The only exception is: If the Game capitalizes a word, so does OblivioWiki. Example: Red Ring Road
 * This applies to all article titles and text.

Exceptions to standard English
Due to the nature of this article, it's important to list the exceptions first.


 * Item names and skill names are treated as proper nouns, and as such, are always capitalized! So, while you use a hammer to fix armor, you use a Repair Hammer to fix Dwarven Armor.
 * Names that the game always capitalizes, like Plundered Mine, are always capitalized!

Article and category titles
Because of the design of MediaWiki, the software used to run the OblivioWiki, case is a bigger issue than you might think it deserves. An article called Some Test Article is different than the article Some test article. However, Some test article and some test article are exactly the same thing! Using a consistant case for article titles is therefore pretty important.

When referencing an article, do so as if it weren't an article. If I'm talking about style and formatting, I reference the article just like that. However, if the article name were to come at the beginning of the sentence, as in "Style and formatting is important for the ObivioWiki," you'd capitalize the first letter. As noted before, both of these articles point to exactly the same place.

Subheading titles
Subheading titles should, in general, have only the first letter capitalized. Any other capitalizations should occur only according to standard English rules.

Capitalization of in-game terms
Just because a term is in the game does not mean it should be capitalized. Throughout the OblivioWiki, sentences like the following have appeared:

The Leader of a Guild designs the Guild Cape when talking to the Guild Registrar in the City.

This is wrong, and extremely annoying to read. This sentence should be:

The leader of a guild designs the guild cape when talking to the guild registrar in the city.

Any exceptions to this rule are noted in the section above.