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: That would affect many articles, [[Doom Wiki:Policies and guidelines#Capitalization|as you can see]]. I agree that it seems inconsistent to allow a random PWAD author from 1995 to choose his/her own capitalization, but not id or a decade-old community portal. That part of the policy was before my time, however, so you'd have to ask Fredrik why he thought we should do what Wikipedia does. [[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] 16:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | : That would affect many articles, [[Doom Wiki:Policies and guidelines#Capitalization|as you can see]]. I agree that it seems inconsistent to allow a random PWAD author from 1995 to choose his/her own capitalization, but not id or a decade-old community portal. That part of the policy was before my time, however, so you'd have to ask Fredrik why he thought we should do what Wikipedia does. [[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] 16:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | ||
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+ | :: Articles can be fixed over time, and the task is eased by using the search feature. I'll be doing it myself (especially in any case where I propose the change). I think Fredrik's policy is reasonable for readability purposes and general editing practices (though I've still not put enough thought to the use of all-caps for lump names), he just misapplied it in regard to COMPET-N, which is just a shortening of "competition" for the DOS era (8 characters max), thus -itio- is missing and the N is just the last letter of the word/name. <small>[[User:Who is like God?|Who is like God?]] 17:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)</small> | ||
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+ | Compet-n has been down for a few days. Is it gone? {{UnsignedIP|47.38.53.195}} | ||
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+ | : It seems OK from here at the moment. --[[User:Quasar|Quasar]] ([[User talk:Quasar|talk]]) 19:11, 26 April 2019 (CDT) |
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In my opinion this should be renamed to Compet-n, as the official name is COMPET-N, all upper case. The case is similar to the DOOM/Doom question, and Compet-N is the equivalent of DooM. Who is like God? 21:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- That would affect many articles, as you can see. I agree that it seems inconsistent to allow a random PWAD author from 1995 to choose his/her own capitalization, but not id or a decade-old community portal. That part of the policy was before my time, however, so you'd have to ask Fredrik why he thought we should do what Wikipedia does. Ryan W 16:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Articles can be fixed over time, and the task is eased by using the search feature. I'll be doing it myself (especially in any case where I propose the change). I think Fredrik's policy is reasonable for readability purposes and general editing practices (though I've still not put enough thought to the use of all-caps for lump names), he just misapplied it in regard to COMPET-N, which is just a shortening of "competition" for the DOS era (8 characters max), thus -itio- is missing and the N is just the last letter of the word/name. Who is like God? 17:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Its gone
Compet-n has been down for a few days. Is it gone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.38.53.195 (talk)