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* it's ok to only use the first name of the character when referring to someone already mentioned on that page (especially the subject of the article)
* another minor thing, it's much better if you refrain from using curly quotes and apostrophes, stick with the plain " and ' characters.
== Article titles ==
* They should be singular
* Character articles should not include honorifics, and should consist of their full name
** <nowiki>Highprince [[Sadeas]]</nowiki> instead of <nowiki>[[Highprince Sadeas]]</nowiki>
** an exception is [[Vin]], which should not be moved to
==Capitalization==
Naturally, proper English capitalization should be used (proper nouns capitalized, and so on). But, you knew that already! What you '''really''' want to know are the rules for capitalizing all the new terms from the book. Well, fear not, because here you shall now know them!
We always follow the style in the main, published novels (see the note below), so if you see a term capitalized or not capitalized there, that will be our convention as well. But in case you forgot, here are our capitalization conventions, book-by-book, as well as standard capitalization rules for [[cosmere]] terms which rarely appear in novels thus far.
===Mistborn===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*Names and House Names - Venture, Elariel, Tekiel, Kelsier, Vin, etc.
*Metallic Arts and Users of the Metallic Arts - Allomancy, Mistborn, Misting, Feruchemy, Feruchemical, Feruchemist, Hemalurgy, Inquisitor, Thug, Smoker, etc.
*Specific Terms - the Well of Ascension, the Deepness, the Hero of Ages, the Lord Ruler, the Final Empire, Steel Ministry, etc.
*Cantons in the Steel Ministry - Canton of Orthodoxy, Canton of Inquisition, etc.
*Locations - Dominance, Luthadel, Fadrex City, Urteau, Ashmounts, Pits of Hathsin, etc.
*Individual Cultures and Organizations - Terris, Khlennium, Synod, Keepers, Worldbringers, etc.
*Honoriffics - Master Vaht, Lord, Lady, etc.
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*Names of Races - skaa, noble, nobility, koloss, kandra, mistwraiths
*Metal names and variants - iron, steel, tin, pewter, copper, coppermind, coppercloud, atium, lerasium, bronze spike, etc. (Note: Brandon, in interviews, sometimes capitalizes atium and lerasium. These informal interviews should not be construed as official capitalization, because in the trilogy, atium is never capitalized, and on the official Table of Allomantic Metals, atium and lerasium are lowercase)
*Verbs and Modifiers related to Metallic Arts - burn, flare, store, tap, charge, spike, atium shadow, pulse, etc.
*Steel Ministry Rankings when not used as an honorific - obligator, prelan, high prelan, lord prelan, etc.
*Terms with the Nobility when not referring to a specific case - keep, house, manor
*Mundane terms - boxing, mists, ashfalls, streetslot, etc.
===Cosmere===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*Adonalsium
*Terms like Shard, Sliver, Splinter, and other derivatives of them, even if they are nonstandard (Shardpool, Shardholder). Similarly, the Shattering and Splintering are also capitalized
*Names of Shards like Honor, Ruin, Preservation, Cultivation
*Realmatic Theory, names of the three Realms (Physical Realm, Cognitive Realm, Spiritual Realm). Typically, when referring to something's Physical/Cognitive/Spiritual aspect, they are also capitalized.
*Names of Shardworlds - Scadrial, Sel, Taldain, Roshar
*Other terms - Investiture, Spiritweb, Worldhopping
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*Focus
*Intent
'''Note''' that we follow capitalization rules of the main sequence of published novels. Other, secondary titles--especially [[Mistborn Adventure Game]]--may not follow the same styles.
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