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:::: I've gone ahead and manually counted how many creature names are capitalised more often than not, according to the word list you linked (and with the help of the [[List of creatures]] page). I counted singular and plural forms as one, and I found that 15 words* (out of 141 total creatues. 18 if you count "master" twice for gremlin/genie, "warrior" twice for skeleton/lizard, and "cerebus/cerebi" which don't appear at all) in creature names are capitalised either less or the same as not, and many of those are words like "green", "war", "greater", "battle", "walking", etc., which are likely to appear often outside of creature names, skewing the results. To be fair, there are also some words like "Gold" which are probably being capitalised in other places, so the errors might not be in only one direction, but there are definitely more words skewing towards "capitalised less" than the other way around. I do think what I've done is a good indication that the manual probably tends to treat creature names as proper nouns. Without looking at the context for every creature name, like you have (which I don't want to do :P ), I can't really get a better idea of what the manual does, but yeah. 6 words in creature names are capitalised as often as not and 9 are capitalised less than half the time out of 141 creature names (a Horde of which have more than one word in them). I personally think creature names should count as proper nouns for the purposes of capitalisation on this wiki. [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 07:30, 12 January 2018 (CET) | :::: I've gone ahead and manually counted how many creature names are capitalised more often than not, according to the word list you linked (and with the help of the [[List of creatures]] page). I counted singular and plural forms as one, and I found that 15 words* (out of 141 total creatues. 18 if you count "master" twice for gremlin/genie, "warrior" twice for skeleton/lizard, and "cerebus/cerebi" which don't appear at all) in creature names are capitalised either less or the same as not, and many of those are words like "green", "war", "greater", "battle", "walking", etc., which are likely to appear often outside of creature names, skewing the results. To be fair, there are also some words like "Gold" which are probably being capitalised in other places, so the errors might not be in only one direction, but there are definitely more words skewing towards "capitalised less" than the other way around. I do think what I've done is a good indication that the manual probably tends to treat creature names as proper nouns. Without looking at the context for every creature name, like you have (which I don't want to do :P ), I can't really get a better idea of what the manual does, but yeah. 6 words in creature names are capitalised as often as not and 9 are capitalised less than half the time out of 141 creature names (a Horde of which have more than one word in them). I personally think creature names should count as proper nouns for the purposes of capitalisation on this wiki. [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 07:30, 12 January 2018 (CET) | ||
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::Ok, good. Personally I am not too interested in these storyline characters like Gem the Sorceress, but I do not mind about them as long as they do not interfier with the "default settings". –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:47, 23 February 2016 (CET) | ::Ok, good. Personally I am not too interested in these storyline characters like Gem the Sorceress, but I do not mind about them as long as they do not interfier with the "default settings". –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:47, 23 February 2016 (CET) | ||