I m not sure that s the example you meant the diff shows a Defendent Defendant change Defendent is either a typo or a Briticism and shouldn t be used in reference to a US legal case where the term of art is Defendant and we d only capitalize it like that in titles of cases There are lots of things in MOS I loathe but Compass points isn t that troublesome to me At worst it seems to generate unnecessary RM discussions sometimes and some editwarring over northeast vs north east I think it should explicitly cross references WP ENGVAR there Compass points shouldn t be capitalized unless in a proper name