Coasterpedia talk:Manual of Style/Naming convention

"The" before ride names

I've added this, as it's been policy as long as I can remember (I think, before I edited here), and it seems sensible to me. Lachlan (Talk | contribs) (an admin) 10:50, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Ride/Park names with improper capitalization

In the case of a ride or park name not being capitalized as normal (for example, ring°racer), how should the article be titled? Using ring°racer as an example, should the article title be capitalized as it currently is ("Ring°racer"), or not so as to more accurately reference the ride's actual name? SillySquirrellllll (talk) 14:14, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

If the logo doesn't have a capital letter at the start, we could list it also without a capital letter. This seems to be what Wikipedia does. I thought we did also, but I just checked MaxAir and it still has the capital. What do you think is best? Lachlan (Talk | contribs) 22:13, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

I also believe writing the title without the capitalization would be best, but I do want to know what the general consensus is before making the change. SillySquirrellllll (talk) 20:29, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

If random capital letters are allowed in other parts of names (ex InvadR), I don't see why the start would be any different.

It really comes down to if we want to be like Wikipedia and translate names into standard writing (ring°racer > Ring Racer), or make page titles as accurate as possible to the name of the ride, which results in stuff like BIG☆ALOHA. CoasterDave (talk) 23:41, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Personally I don't like all-caps titles, I think they aren't nice to read. That one has a bigger problem though which is it's difficult to link to and it doesn't appear in search results thanks to the star in the middle.

My vote would be for allowing the odd capitalisations, with the caveat of checking to see what the park writes in written text and if that's consistent. I wouldn't have all-caps or special characters (other than accents). Lachlan (Talk | contribs) 11:25, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

I just moved the ring racer page and it seems that the capital letter was added automatically. SillySquirrellllll (talk) 13:21, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

You can add {{DISPLAYTITLE:ring racer}} above the categories to change what title is displayed. Please only use this for circumventing the uppercase letter at the start - anything else should be done by page move. Lachlan (Talk | contribs) 14:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. SillySquirrellllll (talk) 16:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)