Questions tagged [capitalization]
For questions related to the use and misuse of capitalization in text on Stack Exchange.
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Case inconsistency in headings of the Questions menu
There is an inconsistency in the case of headings in the Questions menu. On the Home and Questions pages, some headings use camel case, while others have only the first character capitalized.
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Minor difference in the display of flag history between sites
On Stack Overflow, the text for flags in the flag history page has its first letter capitalized (for example, spam):
However, on other sites, the text is not capitalized:
What is the reason for the ...
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Inconsistent capitalization of links in top bar dialogs [duplicate]
There are a couple of links in various dialogs in the top bar, and the capitalization isn't consistent; some of them are all lower case, some are sentence cased (the latter is the new standard). From ...
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Is the language name case sensitive for syntax highlighting?
I often use the syntax-highlighting feature of Stack Exchange in order to make my code easier to read.
```lang-python
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
```
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
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Capitalize the word "markdown" in formatting tips and editing help
When editing a post (old or new editor likewise), there is a button to get formatting tips. The page about tables has the word "markdown" written in lower case:
The same issue also appears ...
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Capitalization of "site" in the Data Explorer's footer
There's a small capitalization inconsistency in the footer between the main site and the Data Explorer.
On SE the footer has the word "Site" capitalized while it's written "site" ...
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Why are tooltips for bare links to SE posts (in comments) not capitalized despite the actual posts being capitalized?
When posting links to SE posts in comments, where links are not converted to links with titles, the tooltips for those links are not capitalized.
For example, this is a bare link with an uncapitalized ...
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Typo in today's podcast - Github should be GitHub
If you notice How an average programmer became Github’s CTO, both the title and the body of the post have Github written with only one capital letter while the usual styling of the name should be ...
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Should the default edit summaries be in sentence case?
I'm not entirely au fait with the site's inner workings so I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature-request or if it's actually status-bydesign, hence the open question.1
The default edit summaries are ...
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Capitalization issue in the answer sorting menu
In the answer sorting menu, "Highest Score" is in title case, whereas the other two options are in sentence case:
The screenshot provided in Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: ...
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Capitalizing issue in the header pages
In the header's "review queues" drop-down menu, in the link text of "all queues" and "tools", the first character is a capital letter:
But in the "achievements"...
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Improve Meta awareness banner on private beta sites
Sites in private beta (current example – screenshot for when it reaches public beta) have a yellow banner on all pages making users aware of the Meta site:
got a question about the site itself? ...
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Is it Help Center, Help center, or help center?
What is the correct casing for help center? If we look at the help center we find the heading in sentence casing with only the first word capitalized (Help center) but if we look further down we see ...
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Tooltip for Talkative/Outspoken badge indicators in moderator dashboard not capitalized
The moderator dashboard has two indicators, a bronze and a silver dot, which are shown if the moderator has the Talkative resp. Outspoken badge. People have questioned their usefulness before (1, 2), ...
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Tool tip for "No hats for me, please" button needs to be in sentence case [closed]
The tool tip for the button No hats for me, please isn't in sentence case and reads as:
opt out of Winter Bash
To comply with Stacks standards, which require sentence case for UI elements, it needs ...
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