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This comment relates to Conversation 4 (see T131013#4933393 for a key)
@Deskana I wonder if there's a variation of the option 2 you proposed:
- Keep the descriptions capitalised, and change the editing experience to tell people that they shouldn't capitalise descriptions.
- This gets confusing really fast, and people aren't likely to really understand. ("They're capitalised, but don't capitalise it yourself, we'll capitalise it for you, until you try editing it again in which case we won't, but we'll do it again afterwards...")
What if we allowed people to edit descriptions, but instead of telling them not to capitalize we just automatically forced the first letter to be lowercase when we stored it in Wikidata? Of course this would be obscuring things from editors, however maybe it is the best compromise. The end result would be what's desired for both services: descriptions wouldn't be capitalized in Wikidata, and they would be in Wikipedia.
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