Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-18014300-20170619050619/@comment-5088097-20170620150157

Sol Pacificus wrote:

SupremeAssassin wrote: Well, before I appealed the decision to change the article named Mohawk to Kanienkehaka to refer to Connor's people, it was, of course, referred to as Mohawk. What does this have to do with your question? Well, calling it the Ptolemaic Dynasty (I prefer we use a capital D, just because it looks nicer, we are, after all, referring to a particular dynasty, and not just a dynasty.) would be fine for now until we know what it's called in the game. Bringing up the capitalization of "dynasty" is a good point since I was always and still am unsure which is grammatically correct. Chinese dynasties always have it lower-case while Egyptian dynasties tend to have it upper-case, but this is inconsistent. Personally I think it's more correct to capitalize it, but it actually looks less awkward to me not to do so. Technically speaking, it is grammatically correct to capitalize because we are referring to a period of time in which a certain region or country had undergone political change. For instance, Italian Renaissance, Spanish Inquisition, these are particular events in history, and thus are capitalized, to signal importance. So I would strongly advise capitalizing dynasty to signify that we are referring to a period of history, rather than a number of events, for example, "China had many dynasties." As opposed to something such as, "The 1st Dynasty." Or in reference to this forum, the Ptolemaic Dynasty, because we are referring to a period of history for that one particular region, and of course are also specifying a specific dynasty. Take some time to think about it, it would also serve well to consider how consistent the Wiki is with this as well.