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om film studios record labels and other entertainment industry interests furthermore many of them are directly owned by the same international corporations who own the studios and labels and many city newspapers as well they have a doubly vested interest in mimicry of the stylization in logos and marketing materials the ground truth is that people in general do not obey or expect extraneous marketing stylizations no one writes that they bought their shirt at macy s or just got a sony stereo for their car even the idea that people are following marketing journalism style in overcapitalizing song titles turns out to be provably false 8 it s unnecessary anyway we already have this covered edit the manual of style already has provisions e g at both wp manual of style capital letters and wp manual of style trademarks to accept a simple stylization matter that is also accepted by virtually all sources across all publications styles not just one to be intrinsic to a particular name in practice this is limited to unusual but semantically meaningful capitalization intercaps or camelcase ipod centos conventionalized dropping of capitalization of an acronym nabisco conventionalized capitalization of an acronym some might not have thought of as one ikea sage publications fusion of words or names when the usage is a legal matter found in corporate documents trademark registrations etc daimlerchrysler glaxosmithkline simple substitution of a letter or letters for some other letter or numeral deadmau5 left 4 dead it does not extend in any cases to all capitals for emphasis sony time magazine the gap this includes small capitals green mountain coffee downton abbey jumbled capitalization with no semantic meaning ebay dingbat substitutions or insertions e trade c net changes that require special markup and may cause accessibility problems alien 3 run together words that are not found in corporate trademark and other legal registrations nor accepted by most sources just seen as a matter of logo stylization baker taylor jcpenney the special case of all lowercase as a stylization this has been accepted in a handful of cases for individuals who use it themselves and for whom virtually all sources also use it for k d lang but not for e e cummings see e e cummings it is accepted for software that only exists as a command line executable given in all lowercase even when it is an acronym or contains one that would otherwise be capitalized ntpd for the network time protocol daemon in unix linux but ntp for the network time protocol itself it is not accepted for trademarks and logos citibank sears specific exceptions for special cases are not blanket rules for everything superficially similar edit any exception for a particular case on the basis of near universal cross genre usage regarding that case does not extend to applying such a stylization approach to everything somewhat similar to it this includes but is not limited to dropping capitalization on all acronyms pronounceable as words even when some generally reliable sources do it unesco nasa this is a style advocated and used by various newspapers especially in uk but also including some us ones like the new york times it is not catching on and is not used here over capitalizing titles of works do it like a dude starting names with lowercase where not universally supported some new existentialos should not be written that way using ios as an excuse because virtually no professionally produced sources would give it as anything but existentialos except specialist publications that mimic trademarks usually because they are publications funded almost entirely by industry advertising and are thus not fully independent sources a problem common among tech gaming music and movie tv magazines and websites i e the celebrity entertainment and infotainment press see the section about this above wp common sense always applies it does not matter that these changes are sometimes applied by some specialized genre style guides or individual publishers house style in other kinds of writing they are not applied by wikipedia s or other mainstream formal english style manuals the common style fallacy can be disruptive enough for sanctions edit wikipedia s editors just have to absorb and live with the fact that they cannot randomly apply conflicting style regimes from unrelated forms of writing all of the following are expected per applicable policies from those who write for this project you will not abuse wikipedia as a platform for activism about language usage most especially not in a holy war manner about what is right or wrong in some absolutist prescriptivism sense you will not indefinitely pursue changes you wish to see at wp mos wp at or naming conventions pages when consensus hasn t gone the way you desire if your proposal to change wikipedia s approach to a stylistic matter is not successful do not continue to forum shop it even if you don t bother to comply with our house style while writing new material you must not impede the ability of others to do so e g do not change others text to be non compliant nor edit war against efforts by others to bring your material into compliance you will not engage in incivility including personal attacks assumptions of bad faith or casting of aspersions over style and title matters discretionary sanctions i e swift administrative punishment with little process or recourse have been authorized to deal with such behavior see wp arbatc and related arbitration committee cases about style and article titles editors have been topic banned from style discussions and from specific content topics and even indefinitely blocked from editing wikipedia at all for failure or inability to work within these necessary collaboration norms wikipedia has its own style manual for two major reasons to produce consistent professional grade content for our readers and to forestall recurrent time wasting disputes over stylistic trivia by providing consistent rules for editors like all compromises it will not please everyone in every way all the time some simple facts about style guides and english usage are that style is largely arbitrary there is no central authority there are no absolute rules and virtually every single style matter even basic stuff like start a sentence with a capital letter has conflicting advice about it in various style guides this means that every style rule on wp is guaranteed to have someone who doesn t agree with it and every editor is going to disagree with at least one such rule just deal with it as editors we all agree that wikipedia policies and guidelines are the operating rules for the wikipedia system and that we re playing by these rules so that we can get to work on building the encyclopedia and remain focused on that to the extent anyone is trying to monkey wrench the system by continually being disruptive over a style matter they don t want to let go of they need to rethink why they are at this project and whether their activities are contributing to or detracting from productivity otherwise the editing community will make this determination on its own and restrain or expel the troublemaker soon enough the ability to work within a framework that is not exactly as one would have personally designed it or entirely what one is used to in a different context like journalistic or academic writing is a matter of basic competence for collaborative project work both on and off wikipedia notes edit wp article titles policy does indirectly affect how we write article content in that we tend to refer to a topic by the same name in the prose as we do in the title at least in the article s lead section virtually all style guides recommend writing iphone as iphone at the beginning of a sentence or rewriting to avoid beginning a sentence with a name that beings with a lower case letter or with a numeral or other non alphabetic symbol as in 3m corporation one of the only sectors where journalism style guides have been of use in the formation of the wikipedia manual of style is in the handling of fast moving controversial usage because the publication schedule of a paper manual like the ap stylebook is annual and many of the other news sites that produce publicly available guides maintain them regularly and for free at their websites e g the guardian and observer style guide these have thus been useful for parts of mos like mos identity and its segment on handling references to transgender people a topic most book publishing and academic style guides do not address in much detail or at all yet 1 2 for details see a three way review of what major style guides recommend about capitalization of prepositions in titles from a february 2016 discussion at wt moscaps 1 2 publishers that follow the chicago manual of style closely will stick to the academic capitalize no prepositions rule because cmos has adopted this preference from academic journal publishing this is not a recent change the exclusion of prepositions from the list of words to capitalize in english language titles dates to at least the 11th ed in 1948 pp 38 39 a trade organization called the music business association drafted something called the music metadata style guide final version august 2014 in which mba insists on titles which match the cover art something that is often literally impossible even with css 3 on p 10 it then directly contradicts itself on p 20 and sets out capitalization rules that naturally match the four letter rule already used in marketing and the music press as of february 2016 there are no indications that this would be standard to the extent any sense can be made of it has had any impact on the publishing world at all and it was only intended for metadata in digital music files to begin with actual style guides for music related english language usage like writing about music a style sheet 3rd ed 2014 d kern holoman u of california press isbn 78 0 520 28153 0 pp 10 11 almost always follow academic style they do not capitalize prepositions regardless of length however most of them are intended for academic publications and most often applied to classical music and so have had little impact on music journalism for an example of how to use search engines to find sources across multiple genres for a pop culture topic within the framework of applicable wp policies and guidelines and without treating the searches incorrectly as if they were sources in their own right see talk utada hikaru archive 4 requested move 22 january 2016 see e g a detailed review of what various mostly user generated content music related websites style guides are doing from a february 2016 discussion at wt moscaps see also edit wikipedia article titles deciding on an article title wikipedia manual of style capital letters wikipedia manual of style trademarks wikipedia manual of style titles wikipedia talk manual of style faq wikipedia talk article titles archive 40 rfc on commonstyle proposal 2013 discussion on applying the manual of style to article titles or doing what the majority of usually specialized sources do on a case by case basis today wp requested moves follows the mos and the naming conventions guidelines which in turn also agree with mos and mos itself takes into account exceptions when the rs consistently use a particular style so a balance has been achieved wikipedia talk article titles archive 50 stylization of the common name 2015 failed proposal to effectively shoehorn the style rules into wp at policy itself the consensus has remained as is wikipedia make technical articles understandable wikipedia don t be a fanatic wikipedia tendentious editing wikipedia use our own words wikipedia specialized style fallacy wikipedia tertiary source fallacy v t e wikipedia essays building editing and deletion philosophy articles are more important than policy articles must be written all five pillars are equally important avoid vague 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