Forum:CT Archive/Changing capitalization in quotes

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I wanted to bring this up yesterday, but forgot it. So, here is what I want to discuss and reach a consensus on:

We have set two policies before:
 * 1) We should capitalize human in in-universe articles because all specie-names (Twi'lek, Rodian, Zabrak etc.) are capitalized and thus, human shouldn't be an exception.
 * 2) We also decided to capitalize galaxy because it's always one particular galaxy we're referring to. Out-of-universe names like the Milky Way Galaxy are always capitalized and thus the Star Wars Galaxy (even if it's unnamed) should also be capitalized. (I don't agree with this, but it's independent from the reason I'm writing this).

I noticed that we also change the capitalization of these words in direct quotations. That's what we shouldn't be doing. No Star Wars source has ever capitalized human or galaxy, at least I haven't seen any so far. And no one is supposed to change quotes in any way: I guess it's a violation of copyright or considered plagiarism (sort of) in any way, even if those are completely unimportant changes in capitalization. I'm learning essay writing at university and one of the most important things is&mdash;apart from having introduction, discussion, and conclusion&mdash;is to never ever change any quotes in any way. Either the direct, unchanged quote should be used or it should be paraphrased completely. The policies we set up here at Wookieepedia does not apply to any other Star Wars sources. By applying Wookieepedia policies in quotes, I think, implies that our capitalizations are "canon" in any other Star Wars sources as well. (Note that I put canon in quotation marks, because canon has a slightly different meaning for Star Wars).

Who thinks we shouldn't be changing capitalization in quotations?

Don't change capitalization

 * 1) See my points above - TopAce 11:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)