Forum:Grammar changes

Hey. There's a couple of things I would like to add to the Manual of Style and would also like you guys to use.


 * All game names/products/companies should be italicised. Therefore, Club Penguin is correct if referring to the game itself. This is good because it follows the English language correctly (all titles of products are italicised), and also it will help distinguish the difference between using a name for a title, or a place - like Club Penguin could be referring to the island, the game, the makers of the game, or the game series itself. All good wikis have this in their Manual of Style, trust me. There is also a way in making the article title italicised, without italicising the page title itself.
 * Capitalisation. A lot of people are capitalising words that are not proper nouns. Even in article titles, there shouldn't be random capitalisation. List of Puffle related rumours, for example. By our standards, a puffle is a proper noun (although we should clarify this as well, preferably in comments section). However, related and rumours are not proper nouns and therefore should not be capitalised. I remember a user saying in the summary box "Capitalization" after making everything a capital in that article. WRONG. Metalmanager once wrote a Manual of Style (it was awful, sorry) back in the day, although his rules didn't follow anything in the English language. Contrary to popular belief, even in an article title, you can't capitalise every word - that's no such rule. Also List of Pins, for example. A pin is a broad word, a noun that appears outside of Club Penguin, and therefore should not be capitalised. Puffle on the other hand, is CP exclusive.
 * Apostrophes. Even, when I was a child I knew this rule very well; unless you're replacing a missing letter(s) with an apostrophe or indicating possession, then there's no need for it. For example, TVs is correct... TV's is not correct. Never use an apostrophe in a plural, unless the singular word already has an apostrophe.

-- Tigernose    Chat  •  Edits  23:56, March 20, 2010 (UTC)