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Under GENERAL, is there a rule about using the underbar instead of spaces? If so, shouldn't we spell that out? | Under GENERAL, is there a rule about using the underbar instead of spaces? If so, shouldn't we spell that out? | ||
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| + | ==Capital letters in titles of ''leges''== | ||
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| + | At Agricola's suggestion, I'll move the discussion here from the wiki e-mail list. To recap, my view is that the policy for the titles of ''leges'' should be the same as the policy for article-titles in general: all lower-case except for the initial letters of proper nouns. In practice this means the only capital letter will be the first letter of the name of the proposing magistrate, e.g. ''[[lex Popillia senatoria (Nova Roma)|lex Popillia senatoria]]''. The arguments in favour of this are: | ||
| + | * It's in line with the policy for other article-titles; | ||
| + | * It's closer to Roman practice (i.e. no distinction between capitals and lower-case at all); | ||
| + | * It encourages people to think of the names of ''leges'' in a more Roman way (i.e. as simple factual descriptions rather than "titles"). | ||
| + | - [[User:Aulus Apollonius Cordus|Cordus]] 11:11, 31 August 2006 (CDT) | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 31 August 2006
Under GENERAL, is there a rule about using the underbar instead of spaces? If so, shouldn't we spell that out?
Capital letters in titles of leges
At Agricola's suggestion, I'll move the discussion here from the wiki e-mail list. To recap, my view is that the policy for the titles of leges should be the same as the policy for article-titles in general: all lower-case except for the initial letters of proper nouns. In practice this means the only capital letter will be the first letter of the name of the proposing magistrate, e.g. lex Popillia senatoria. The arguments in favour of this are:
- It's in line with the policy for other article-titles;
- It's closer to Roman practice (i.e. no distinction between capitals and lower-case at all);
- It encourages people to think of the names of leges in a more Roman way (i.e. as simple factual descriptions rather than "titles").
- Cordus 11:11, 31 August 2006 (CDT)
