Well... the downside of turning off anonymous editing is that it discourages new contributions. Some people want to contribute once, and then just keep reading. On Wikipedia, people can know one thing about a narrow topic, contribute something useful, and fade away. My guess is that we have just enough jargon that this kind of drive-by editing is less useful, though. The subject matter is commonly known, but the type of literary analysis we do is not. Plus registration has a side effect of making it easier to build a community. (But yes, it's the deletionist anon editor that finally convinced me to change.)
New question for the writers in the room. How should we handle the case of trope names? This is a style guide question. And therefore, it's going to be arbitrary, as different style guides have different results. Capitalizing every word feels unnatural, even if that is the style on TVT. For Wikipedia editors, they like to lowercase everything, and I've had that suggest to me several times. That's a possibility, though that might feel unnatural to those of us who left TVT. So we're left with title case, which is implemented differently in different style guides. Anyone got a favorite?
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New question for the writers in the room. How should we handle the case of trope names? This is a style guide question. And therefore, it's going to be arbitrary, as different style guides have different results. Capitalizing every word feels unnatural, even if that is the style on TVT. For Wikipedia editors, they like to lowercase everything, and I've had that suggest to me several times. That's a possibility, though that might feel unnatural to those of us who left TVT. So we're left with title case, which is implemented differently in different style guides. Anyone got a favorite?
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