| Deskana added a comment. |
In T131013#4933409, @alexhollender wrote: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.
The problem with this is that there's a sizeable number of descriptions that are capitalised at the start, such as almost any description about a person or collection of people:
- Leo Varadkar: Irish Fine Gael politician, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland and Minister for Defence
- James Morton: British chef
- The Smiths: English rock band
- The Cranberries: Irish rock band
So, lower casing by default would be putting the shoe on the other foot, because it'd make some better but make others worse.
I personally don't think this is a huge issue in principle, as it's the wiki way that people make good faith contributions with errors in and that others fix them, but others disagree...
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