Forum:Noun usage (eg. unit names)

The wiki seems to be a bit schizophrenic deciding whether, say, unit and building names are considered common or proper nouns. This effects the naming of articles and, by extension, intrawiki links.

For example, I recently found a "Weapons factory" (common noun) article and a "War Factory" (proper noun) article.

My personal preference is to treat generic unit and structure names (like "heavy tank", "construction yard", "cruiser", etc.) as common nouns. Names which are technical or nicknames, like X-66 Mammoth and Battlemaster, can naturally stay as proper nouns like would be in the real world. - Meco (talk) 12:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this is just a personal thing, but technically, since the article title of any article is a title, any non-common nouns should be capitalized. So in "War Factory", the W and F should be capitalized. In, say "The First Battle of Cairo", T (Because it is the first letter of title) B, and C should be capitalized due to their uncommonness. This is how most article titles are structured be it on the internet or not. --PlaidBaron 21:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)


 * For war factory in my scheme the article title would be "War factory" (because the first letter must be capitalized there), but usage would be just " war factory " (no caps for the w unless it's at the beginning of a sentence). The reason for this is there are many war factories. It'd be like the Allied cruiser, which I think would be silly to have to refer to it as the Cruiser every time we refer to a single example.


 * For a battle article, the name would just be just "Battle of Something". Usage would be "the Battle of Something ", no capitalisation of the 't' in 'the' unless it is at the beginning of a sentence and that sort of thing. - Meco (talk) 04:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

And another thing: which variant of English are we using (English/American/etc.)? That would also affect article names. - Meco (talk) 22:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Since the games are American, it would make sense to use the American spelling. --Tkangaru 06:12, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I can get behind this. - Meco (talk) 04:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

and maybe remove the "Generals: unitname" while we're at it. that's my suggestion. --Werewolf1 02:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * This is supposed to be already in progress. - Meco (talk) 04:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)