| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Standard Capitalization Rules have always been applied to titles. Standard capitalization is always applied to titles in all Caps and there are many titles in the database where the title on the cover is in all lowercase but standard capitalization is applied, i.e., "about a boy", "there's something more about mary", "the princess bride: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition", "you kill me", "reign over me", etc, etc. I have seen one title in lowercase that does break this convention however, "*batteries not included". As far as the title in question goes, it's a toss up  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can understand using standard capitalization rules when the title is in all caps or all lowercase. But when the title is in mixed case, I don't see why...or how by the rules...we can arbitrarily decide that it must be 'corrected'. The second rule for titles says, "Check capitalization of the title." Why would it tell us to do that if we are just going to ignore it and use 'standard capitalization rules' instead?  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
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For non-English titles, use capitalization rules common to the language of the title Quote:
For English titles do not capitalize joining words such as "of", "the", "a", "in", etc. unless they are the first, last or only word in of the title. IMO this boils down to use standard capitalisation rules for all languages. The standard rules for English are simply spelled out. Maybe because there is more than one standard for English. But this does not mean to not capitalise any word other than the "joining words". |
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