Difference between revisions of "How to change CamelCaseCapitalization"

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Article Capitalization

When AboutUs creates a domain page it tries to convert the domain name into upper and lower case automatically (i.e. CamelCase) to make it easier to read the words that make it up. Since it happened automatically, sometimes the capitalizations might be wrong or funny or both.

For example, it can figure out that:

"portlandmeetings.com" should be "PortlandMeetings.com"

Unfortunately, in other cases, it can guess incorrectly. For example:

PortLandmEetingS.com

Funny examples are here at AboutUsBotGoneBad!

Fixing the Problem

...is easy, but you need to be logged in to do so. Once you are logged in, you will see a rename option on top of every page. Use that to change the capitalization. For extra credit* enter [[FixName]] in the edit summary so others can learn why you've made the change by clicking that link to this page.

Convention

For the sake of consistency, these conventions are preferred:

Most pages here are DomainPages in the format of Example.tld
Using all caps (or all lowercase) makes it harder to read.
No need to add 'www.' or 'http://' or both 'http://www.' in front of the domain name
the tld (.com, .net, .org, etc.) is most often lowercase

* No actual credit given.

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 Unfortunately, in other cases, it can guess incorrectly.  For example:
-: "omidyardotnet.us" was capitalized to become "OMiDyardotnEt.us" when it should have been "'''O'''midyar'''D'''ot'''N'''et.us"
+: PortLandmEetingS.com
 * Funny examples are here at [[AboutUsBotGoneBad]]!
 ==Fixing the Problem==
-...is easy, but you need to be [[Advantages of Logging In|logged in]] to do so.  Once you are logged in, you will see a <big>'''rename'''</big> option on top of every page.  Use that to change the capitalization, and for extra credit* enter <nowiki>[[FixName]]</nowiki> in the [[edit summary]] so others can learn why you've made the change by clicking that [[WikiLink|link]] to this page.
+...is easy, but you need to be [[Advantages of Logging In|logged in]] to do so.  Once you are logged in, you will see a <big>'''rename'''</big> option on top of every page.  Use that to change the capitalization.  For extra credit* enter <nowiki>[[FixName]]</nowiki> in the [[edit summary]] so others can learn why you've made the change by clicking that [[WikiLink|link]] to this page.
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 For the sake of consistency, these conventions are preferred:
 *Most pages here are [[DomainPages]] in the format of Example.tld
-*Using all caps makes it harder to read.
+*Using all caps (or all lowercase) makes it harder to read.
 *No need to add 'www.' or 'http://' or both 'http://www.' in front of the domain name
 *the tld (.com, .net, .org, etc.) is most often lowercase
-*
 <small>* ''No actual credit given.''</small>
-==Other Instances==
-If someone [http://www.aboutus.org/Special/form/form?title=ManualDomainPage manually creates] the page and doesn't add the [[tld]] (.com and so on) or has a superfluous "www" or "http://" the [[move page]] function is also used.  In addition to consistency for [[domain page]]s this also restores the page's primary external link at the top left.
-For example:
-:[[Google]] should be [[move page|moved]] to '''[[Google.com]]'''
-:[[www.Google.com]] should be [[move page|moved]] to '''[[Google.com]]'''
 ==See also==