Timeline for What are the implications of various CAPPED/spaced keywords in a title? Should title keyword match package spelling?
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| Jul 20, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | terdon | Please don't generalize like this. Just because newspapers like to commit syntactical atrocities like capitalized titles is no reason for us to follow suit. We aren't writing newspaper articles here and there's absolutely no reason to insist on capitalizing titles. Quite the contrary in fact, the "title" is not a title as such, it is a question. And a package/command name should never be capitalized, I don't care if it's in the title or not. Those are code, and should be kept the way they're entered in a command line. | |
| Jul 19, 2014 at 10:03 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @pleasedeleteme These capitalization guidelines aren't really relevant to Ask Ubuntu because we don't capitalize most words in question titles, anyway. Some recently active questions, properly titled by this community's norms, include Is there any way to kill a zombie process without reboot?, Should I use sources from diffrent ubuntu versions?, and How do I install Ubuntu Studio to its own hard drive on a UEFI system? We expect most titles to be sentences with normal sentence capitalization. | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | Hannu |
English is rife with exceptions ... add to that the influence of other languages - e.g. being Swedish makes that "is" and "are" might get mixed up - these are a single word in Swedish. If the Q is about a software package with a certain style in the name as in "NetworkManager" above - I believe it is important to keep it matching. I for one rely quite a bit on searching, deviating on the name will diminish its usefulness.
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| Jul 9, 2014 at 21:26 | comment | added | Elder Geek | English is rife with exceptions, especially when considering local forms. The spell checker here always suggests "centre" as opposed to "center" In questions about "Ubuntu Software Center" for example. The important thing is that the question be clear, understandable and get in front of the eyes that can answer it IMHO. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 2:04 | history | answered | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |