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List:       wikipedia-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Orthography in interwiki links
From:       Roman Maurer <roman.maurer () amis ! net>
Date:       2005-07-14 21:13:44
Message-ID: 42D6D588.1030106 () amis ! net
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Delirium pravi:

> Indeed; I don't see how this is an issue of whether languages typically 
> capitalize nationalities or not.  If you look at the sidebar, *all* the 
> menu entries are capitalized in all the languages I've just 
> spot-checked, whether they're proper nouns or not.  "Community portal" 
> starts with a capital "C" on en:, and "Accueil communauté" starts with a 
> capital "A" on fr:, and so on.  I don't see why we would specifically 
> lowercase the language names, while everything else in the menus is 
> capitalized.

The sidebar menu entries are supposed to be *titles* of their respective 
pages, as opposed to the language names, which are ... well, language 
*names* rather than article (or page) titles.
-- 
	Pozdrav,
	  Roman
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