# Talk:Munich Mouser

Hi @Tim O'Doherty:, I saw your edit concerning the capitalization of "cat" in a cite news title The Cat of Downing Street.  You prefer "cat", I believe that "Cat" is correct and would enjoy discussing this.  The original source has "Cat" capitalized.  Template:Cite_news seems to have example titles that have title case, which would suggest that "Cat" is correct. Help:Citation_Style_1#Titles_and_chapters says "Use title case unless the cited source covers a scientific, legal or other technical topic and sentence case is the predominant style in journals on that topic."  MOS:TITLECAPS I think also prefers title case, though it is a bit confusing  What are your thoughts?  Cxbrx (talk) 13:13, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I remember reading something in the MoS regarding news articles being in sentence case, although I can't recall where. I notice that the "News" section of the FA Edward Dando also uses sentence case for its newspaper sources, and I've seen similar sentence case refs in other articles which cite newspapers as well. It looks like when made manually, editors prefer sentence case, but the "automatic" tool for ref-building generates in title case. As long as the style is consistent across the whole article, it should be fine, I think. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 13:25, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I agree that consistency in the article is key.  Please let me know if you find a MoS source for news articles being in sentence case.  As an aside, I use LaTeX for publishing academic papers, which uses BibTeX which uses sentence case.  Cxbrx (talk) 17:09, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
OK. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 17:17, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
@Cxbrx - I know it's been a while. Found it: MOS:TITLECONFORM. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
@Tim O'Doherty:, Thanks!  Good to know. Cxbrx (talk) 12:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

This discussion was created per WP:BRD in order to find consensus and prevent an edit war.
Kornatice, you manually reverted my edit where I capitalized instances of "Chief Mouser", a term that is capitalized as such in its article—which is a featured list. –CopperyMarrow15 (talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 20:56, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I was following the guidelines in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography for titles of positions, which only recommends capitalization in very limited circumstances. I would say that the Chief Mouser article has many incorrectly capitalized instances. It is wrong to say that an article has no flaws because it is featured. Kornatice (talk) 21:00, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
I understand now. Thank you! –CopperyMarrow15 (talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 21:11, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Just so you know, CM15, other mouser bios use a similar style; see, for example, Peter III. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:13, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
See MOS:JOBTITLES. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:01, 5 September 2023 (UTC)