User:EVula/opining/pet peeves

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  or not. Why? Because the caption is used as the   tag's   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 Manual of Style.
 * HTML instead of XHTML. Generally, this doesn't matter, but if I see  tags (usually in infoboxes), I'll change them to   tags.
 * Header capitalization. Only the first word should be capped, unless it is a proper noun. See Manual of Style (headings).
 * Related to this is links in headers. It just shouldn't happen, and it looks really bad. See Manual of Style (headings).
 * "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 External links.