User:EVula/opining/pet peeves

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EVula is dealing with real-life crap (see the links). I'll be around, but not doing much more than WP:CHU patrols.

This is an essay. More specifically, this is just EVula spouting off at the mouth. 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".