User talk:Leraincat

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-- WelcomeBOT (talk) 07:41, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!

Well hello there Lerainca! What a pleasent surprise to have you here. I can see that the WelcomeBot has already introduced you to the TF Wiki, but there's surely a difference between an automated machine and a real person giving you a warm welcome, right? Hence my reason for welcoming you once again to this knowledge hub of tf2. I hope that you'll stay with us for a while and provide plenty of useful contributions to the wiki. Lolimsogreat21 (talk) 12:44, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you! Leraincat (talk) 08:32, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

"Unnecessary capitalization"

Please note the style guide for capitalization.

It has been a practice to capitalize object terms when referring to particular attributes of the game such as "Class", "Item", "Ammo", "Knife", "Cosmetics", etc, especially when the term is a token for a class of objects, e.g., "Contracts", "Objectives".

Mind you, this has not been absolutely consistently applied, and the ironic lack of capitalization of "item" in the section heading is not lost.

See also Help:Style guide#Valve's grammar, just in case.

M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (talk | contribs) (Help Wanted!) 13:00, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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Gotcha, thanks. Missed that guide, my bad. Tried to apply to edit as I have seen it formatted around the wiki, I suppose it really is confusing and inconsistent. Leraincat (talk) 08:34, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Sure. NP. I have a mind to update the guide a little. As I was reviewing your edit I realized a rule of thumb; if the term happens to have its own page on the wiki, the it would be appropriate to capitalize it ( Item, Cosmetic, Contract ), but not when you are not using the term in that strict sense ( like Classic vs {{botignore|classic}}). I think the use of such capitalization in such technical writing can assist in communicating operation on classes or objects (as some styles might to in source code). If there gets to be a sense of overcapitalization, I suggest not capitalizing words less important to the point of the discussion; if several Items or Cosmetics are mentioned to such an extent that capitalization of the words Item or Cosmetic detracts from the topic, then I might relax their emphasis with lower case. M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (talk | contribs) (Help Wanted!) 19:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC)