Ultima Codex talk:Style guide/Archive

Non-breaking space
I think it should be used. I vaguely remember some hating on this HTML entity, but I think that was more about something that the rich text editor was insinuating into edits, and not something that the human editors could easily be blamed for. In any case, I think that the HTML people were wise to create it. Sometimes I find it weird when a line begins with "VI" and when the previous word is "Ultima", sometimes it does! This often happens in info boxes, which is why I bridge to two with "&amp;nbsp;". I'm not sure if this is the proper way to do typesetting (or even if "typesetting" is the correct term), but I'd like to put it in the style guide, if I can persuade you to see it that way. Oh, and Fenyx, have I got a bot request for you! AngusM 01:53, July 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmm, it may be useful in some cases. But it tends to make source editing harder, so if used, it should be used sparsely and in some contexts only, I think.--Sega381 14:11, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess 3 months is enough time. I think I'll mix it in with the stuff about game names, since there doesn't seem to be much other use for it. Oh, and as far as editing goes, I said somewhere else that we should probably take on 100 shares of inconvenience to save the reader one. I think that should be an official guideline also. AngusM 23:58, October 2, 2010 (UTC)

Use of italics and quotes for proper names
I'd like to suggest the following use of italics and qutoes, which we are somewhat already using, based on Wikipedia: Establishments like Folley Tavern should only be capitalized, no italics or quotes.
 * Italics:
 * Games
 * Books
 * Ships
 * Movies, Series, Music albums (for real life references)
 * Double quotes:
 * Songs
 * Book chapters
 * Series episodes (for real life references)

What do you think?--Sega381 14:11, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * If you can find ample instances of these being used in articles, I say feel free to add it. If you do, though, you should probably use clearer terms than some of those you have here. AngusM 21:06, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Now that it's policy, it seems that the decision to italicize game names wasn't just a recent trend that someone pioneered, as I originally thought, but just proper form and style. Someone should probably remove that text I made specifically about how to handle game names, and then maybe add to that section that Sega(?) recently created. I'd do it myself, but I think others understand this better than I do. AngusM 04:06, August 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, merged. I left the Serpent Isle bit, though, as that is a different topic.--Sega381 04:23, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

Capitals in image captions
Since we're on about capitals, what about capital initials in image captions? I don't see captions as being like section headers or article titles, so I think the same capitalization rules should apply to this as to paragraphs. AngusM 03:22, September 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I think that would be the best way of doing it. Dungy 11:07, September 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed too. Captions are just sentences, not titles.--Sega381 18:52, September 14, 2010 (UTC)