User:EVula/opining/pet peeves

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I took a "surprise" wikibreak about a month back, and I'm just now returning (albeit slowly). I'll be responding to the shitloads of backlogged talk page comments in due time...

This is an essay. More specifically, this is just EVula spouting off at the mouth. Read at your own risk... It is not a policy or guideline... please tell me you didn't confuse it for either one or the other. Please...

Things that I don't like, and usually cause me to go straight for the Edit link. Just a short little list that I may expand upon later.

• Images should have captions, regardless of whether they are coded thumb or not. Why? Because the caption is used as the <img> tag's alt value, and if there's nothing specified, nothing is put there (thereby making it difficult for search engines and people who use non-standard browsing methods). More info
• Periods in image captions when there is only a single sentence. I generally kill these on sight. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Captions.
• HTML instead of XHTML. Generally, this doesn't matter, but if I see <br> tags (usually in infoboxes), I'll change them to <br /> tags.
• Header capitalization. Only the first word should be capped, unless it is a proper noun. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)#Capitalization.
  • Related to this is links in headers. It just shouldn't happen, and it looks really bad. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)#Linking.
• "External links" when there's just a single link. C'mon, people, counting to one and realizing that one does not garner plural words isn't very hard. See Wikipedia:External links#"External links" vs "External link".