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Yo dude. You're the dude that signed up before me. Wooooooooooooooooooooooord. Not sure if I am even doing this correctly. Peace. atbety (atbeaty)

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Capitalization of headings

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THank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. The Wikipedia style for capitalizing headings is to use "sentence case" instead of "title case", e.g.,

Important things to know about this subject

not:

Important Things to Know About This Subject

This may be unfamiliar to many editors who believe that or have been taught that "title case is the right way to capitalize headings". It isn't the "right way", it is one style. Wikipedia has, for better or worse, chosen to follow a different style, i.e., capitalize the heading the same way you would capitalize any sentence:

  • capitalize the first word,
  • capitalize any proper nouns (people, places, organizations), and
  • begin all other words with lower case letters.

See WP:MSH for more information. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 12:08, 6 December 2011 (UTC)Reply