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<s>*Since series titles are sort of special, we capitalize all of their words. Hence: "[[Work In Progress]]". Exception: "[[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]", since that's really two series joined into one category. | <s>*Since series titles are sort of special, we capitalize all of their words. Hence: "[[Work In Progress]]". Exception: "[[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]", since that's really two series joined into one category. | ||
*Names of individual shows: per the common-sense title capitalizing rules implemented by the perl module [http://search.cpan.org/~doom/Text-Capitalize-0.4/Capitalize.pm Text::Capitalize], every word in a program title should be capitalized, except: 1) the articles ''a'', ''an'' and ''the''; 2) two and three-letter conjunctions: ''and'', ''or'', ''nor'', ''for'', ''but'', ''so'' and ''yet''; 3) short prepositions: ''to'', ''of'', ''by'', ''at'', ''for'', ''but'' and ''in''. If one of these appears as the the first or last word of a title, then it should be capitalized. | *Names of individual shows: per the common-sense title capitalizing rules implemented by the perl module [http://search.cpan.org/~doom/Text-Capitalize-0.4/Capitalize.pm Text::Capitalize], every word in a program title should be capitalized, except: 1) the articles ''a'', ''an'' and ''the''; 2) two and three-letter conjunctions: ''and'', ''or'', ''nor'', ''for'', ''but'', ''so'' and ''yet''; 3) short prepositions: ''to'', ''of'', ''by'', ''at'', ''for'', ''but'' and ''in''. If one of these appears as the the first or last word of a title, then it should be capitalized. | ||
*If a program is a remix of another program ("[[At the Border (remix)]]"), leave "remix" in lower case. | *If a program is a remix of another program ("[[At the Border (remix)]]"), leave "remix" in lower case.</s> | ||
*This is more of a titling rule than a case rule, but if an article like ''a'', ''an'' or ''the'' is the first word in a program name, leave it capitalized and move it to the end, like "[[Call | *This is more of a titling rule than a case rule, but if an article like ''a'', ''an'' or ''the'' is the first word in a program name, leave it capitalized and move it to the end, like "[[Call In The Night, A]]" so it will alphabetize properly. | ||
*But if you're linking to a show with a title like that, use WikiMedia's syntax to make it pretty, like this: <nowiki>[[Call in the Night, A|A Call in the Night]]</nowiki>. | *But if you're linking to a show with a title like that, use WikiMedia's syntax to make it pretty, like this: <nowiki>[[Call in the Night, A|A Call in the Night]]</nowiki>. | ||
*Programs split over multiple parts should be named according to these examples: | *Programs split over multiple parts should be named according to these examples: | ||
**Karma (Part 2) | **Karma (Part 2) | ||
**Dictator, The (Part 3) | **Dictator, The (Part 3) | ||
If you find an article or a link that has been misnamed, feel free to fix it! | If you find an article or a link that has been misnamed, feel free to fix it! | ||