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→Text within Wikipedia pages: re: not as straightforward as you suggest
:::Hello [[User:Pathoschild|Pathoschild]], [[User:Margotbean|Margotbean]] is saying that English is not my first language and says that my edits do not improve the Wiki, especially when '''changing links'''. English only uses capital letters at the start of paragraphs or proper nouns, you changed the [[Version History]] page in lowercasing links, but Margotbean didn't care about you doing it, she cares about us doing it. The Wiki is the exact opposite for the most part, it really needs to be '''matching''' paragraphs in proper English, she doesn't care about '''adding''' links, but when '''changing''' them. Also in her [[User:Margotbean|user page]], it reads ''If you need to contact me about Wiki issues, feel free to post.'' When you do that, she doesn't give a response about what you wrote to her at all. Margotbean hates me now. Please reply to her [[User talk:Margotbean|talk page]] about all of this, thank you so much. [[User:9000|9000]] ([[User talk:9000|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/9000|contributions]]) 05:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
:::Hello [[User:Pathoschild|Pathoschild]], [[User:Margotbean|Margotbean]] is saying that English is not my first language and says that my edits do not improve the Wiki, especially when '''changing links'''. English only uses capital letters at the start of paragraphs or proper nouns, you changed the [[Version History]] page in lowercasing links, but Margotbean didn't care about you doing it, she cares about us doing it. The Wiki is the exact opposite for the most part, it really needs to be '''matching''' paragraphs in proper English, she doesn't care about '''adding''' links, but when '''changing''' them. Also in her [[User:Margotbean|user page]], it reads ''If you need to contact me about Wiki issues, feel free to post.'' When you do that, she doesn't give a response about what you wrote to her at all. Margotbean hates me now. Please reply to her [[User talk:Margotbean|talk page]] about all of this, thank you so much. [[User:9000|9000]] ([[User talk:9000|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/9000|contributions]]) 05:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
:::: I prefer lowercase too, but I don't think it's as straightforward as you suggest. An argument can be made both for treating page names as regular text (like [[Version History|version history]]) or as page titles (like [[Version History]]). There's also precedent in wiki tradition, since the earliest wikis used [[Version History|VersionHistory]] (one word with capitals) to indicate page links.
:::: I also don't think it's a question of favouritism, since Margotbean and I have definitely argued and disagreed before. There's a distinction between the content articles (which use capitalized links) and technical documentation pages (which use lowercase links). The two sections of the wiki have somewhat different audiences and style conventions (e.g. technical documentation tends to prefer named links over naked links), and [[Version History]] (or [[Version History|version history]]?) falls somewhere between the two so it can go either way.
:::: So I'm fine discussing the capitalization conventions, but we shouldn't just change the convention used by each section without agreeing on the changes first. —<small>[[User:Pathoschild|Pathoschild]] ([[User talk:Pathoschild|talk]]) 06:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)</small>