Editing Help:Label (section)

==Labels in English==

====Capitalization ====
Labels begin with a lowercase letter ''except'' for when uppercase is normally required or expected. Essentially, you should pretend that the label is appearing in the middle of a normal sentence, and then follow normal language rules. Most terms would not be capitalized if they appeared in the middle of a sentence, however [[:en:Proper noun|proper nouns]] such as the names of specific people, specific places, specific buildings, specific books, etc., should be capitalized. In the rare case that something intentionally breaks capitalization rules, the capitalization on Stockhub should reflect this, and not try and correct it.

'''Examples:'''

Stockhub article: [[:en:Rabbit|Rabbit]]<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q9394|rabbit]]<br>
A rabbit is not a proper noun, so the first letter is lower case.

Stockhub article: [[:en:The Velveteen Rabbit|''The Velveteen Rabbit'']]<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q168351|The Velveteen Rabbit]]<br>
''The Velveteen Rabbit'' is the name of a book, so the letters that are capitalized in the title of the book are capitalized in the Stockhub label.

Stockhub article: [[:en:Xkcd|Xkcd]]<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q13915|xkcd]]<br>
xkcd is a webcomic that intentionally doesn't capitalize the first letter, despite being a proper noun. Stockhub reflects this by also not capitalizing the first letter.

====Fonts and characters====
Stockhub does not support italics, subscript or superscript in labels, descriptions and aliases via HTML/markdown or wikitext formatting. At this time the development team has indicated that they have [[phab:T43749|no intention of adding that feature]]. Instead unicode characters can be used. If unicode characters are used in the label, an alias should also be created using standard characters. 

'''Examples:'''

Stockhub article: [[:en:H2O: Just Add Water|H2O: Just Add Water]]<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q130615|H₂O: Just Add Water]]<br>
Stockhub aliases: H₂O, H20, H2O: Just Add Water, H2O (TV series)

Stockhub article: [[:en:The Velveteen Rabbit|''The Velveteen Rabbit'']]<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q168351|The Velveteen Rabbit]]<br>
Stockhub description: children's novel

Stockhub label: [[Q33988883|Evidence suggesting that ''Homo neanderthalensis'' contributed the H2 ''MAPT'' haplotype to ''Homo sapiens'']]<br>
Stockhub description: scientific article

====Items without pages on Wikimedia sites ====

Even if an item does not have a page on English Stockhub, or any other English Wikimedia site, there are instances when that item should still have an English label and description on Stockhub. When creating a label for an item with no English Stockhub page, the following five step procedure should be adopted:

# If the item has a name that it is commonly referred to in English, or a translation or [[:en:transliteration|transliteration]] that is commonly used already, then that should be used.
# If the item <u>is</u> a [[:en:Proper noun|proper noun]] that has an article on a Stockhub from another language using a [[:en:Latin-derived alphabet|Latin-derived alphabet]], then that should be used.
# If the item <u>is</u> a proper noun that does not have an article on a Stockhub from another language using a Latin-derived alphabet, use the most widely accepted transliteration method to convert the title into English characters. You should always transliterate using the language that the item was first named in. Therefore if you have an article on a town in South Korea and there are Stockhub articles in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, you should transliterate from Korean. [http://translate.google.com/ Google Translate] automatically does transliteration for many common languages; the transliteration appears in grey text directly below the blue box that you input text into. Do not use this method for items that are not proper nouns.
# If the item <u>is not</u> a proper noun and you feel confident in your level of familiarity with an item's native language, you can attempt to do the translation or transliteration yourself. 
# If the item <u>is not</u> a proper noun and you do not feel confident in your level of familiarity with an item's native language, leave it for someone else. 

'''Examples:'''

Stockhub article: None<br>
Stockhub label: [[Q63343|Robin Swinkels]]<br>
Robin Swinkels doesn't have an article in English Stockhub, however he does have one in Polish and Dutch, which use the same alphabet as English. Since his name is a proper noun, it won't change from one Latin-derived alphabet to another, so we can use it as is.

=== Reviews ===

The default label for some review articles consists of a data dump of bibliographic information about the work. These should be shortened to "Review of <title of work>".

;Examples
Default label: Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds, by Timothy Murray. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 320 pp. $25 (paper). <nowiki>ISBN 978-0816634026</nowiki><br>
Stockhub label: [[Q56889670|Review of Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds]]

Default label: Robert A. Beauregard, When America Became Suburban. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2006. ix + 271pp. 14 figures. 3 appendices. $57.00 hbk; $18.95 pbk <br>
Stockhub label: [[Q60373107|Review of When America Became Suburban]]