Forgotten Realms Wiki:Use lower case

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Summary Edit

This is how case is handled on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

• Use normal English capitalization rules. Read them here or here if you are not familiar with them.
  Example: Moon elf
• The only exception is: If the canon material capitalizes a word, so should the Forgotten Realms Wiki.
  Example: Time of Troubles
• This applies to all article titles and text.

ReasoningEdit

Because of the design of MediaWiki, the software used to run the Forgotten Realms Wiki, case is a bigger issue than you might think it deserves. An article called 'Some Test Article' is different than the article 'Some test article'. However, 'Some test article' and 'some test article' are exactly the same thing! Using a consistant case for article titles is therefore pretty important.

When more than one page uses that name and the 2 pages uses brackets the word in brackets should be in lower case if following on e.g. Waterdeep (city) not Waterdeep (City). Normal rules apply.