Forum:CT Archive/Italicizing article and short story titles

It has come to my attention that there is some disagreement over whether we should be italicizing or placing within quotation marks the titles of articles within larger works and short stories. Most American style guides advocate quotation marks, and at least some of our templates reflect this. On the other hand, we don't always adhere to standard style rules here, and other templates are italicized. We really ought to make a decision on this, and make the result clear on both the Layout Guide and the Manual of Style, not to mention standardizing the templates. jSarek 20:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Use quotation marks for short stories, articles, and where otherwise recommended by style guides

 * 1) This is the way I've been doing it, and think we ought to be doing it. jSarek 20:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) I mainly want to have a consistent policy of some sort: selecting the one which more new users concerned with such things will recognize as "correct" should avoid conflicts (as we get with the infrequent but persistent attempts to correct our use of "sentient" - our adherence to canon has us use it rather than "sapient", but new users come by every couple of months to tell us we're doing it wrong.) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) The real question is which articles do we consider to fall under this rule? --  I need a name  ( Complain here ) 22:01, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Always use italics

 * 1) Many professional publications do indeed use quotations instead of italics for certain items, but, in the absence of any kind of template (Insider, Droids, Clone Wars), I'd rather we just stick with italics. I think it looks better. Toprawa and Ralltiir 21:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) It looks ok as it is --Jinzler 21:10, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) *Although it is not actually "always use italics" at the moment... --Eyrezer 21:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Citing sources in a research paper or book is different from showing appearances on a wiki. We don't really need to point out the subtle OOU difference between a novel and a short story. Just italicize everything. Wildyoda 21:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) Per the planet masquerading as a user.  Chack Jadson  (Talk)  21:45, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Comments

 * I just want to point our that as Ey said above, currently we use quotation marks instead of italics in some instances. I need to think about this some more.  Chack Jadson  (Talk) 21:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * We use quotations for television episodes, and Gonk recently tweaked the Adventure Journal templates to use quotes for AJ articles. It's not really wrong one way or another, but more of a stylistic preference. Toprawa and Ralltiir 22:01, 10 February 2009 (UTC)