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[katquatermass]

Need to make decisions about how we configure some things across our content

Questions

• Do we use title case on headings (eg capitalise all parts of a header The Tribe rather than The tribe What We Do rather than What we do)
• When we do a bullet point list do we have capital letters at the beginning of each bullet or lower case?
• When we do a bullet point list do we use full stops at the end of each bullet or leave them without
• do we use Oxford commas or not. So if a list says we worked through testing with people in markets, reviewing problems faced by children's centre workers - ,- and looking at the organisation Theory of Change. Is the comma currently highlighted by the dashes used or not?

What we do?

• Harry comment below with preferences as he writes lots of copy
• Karl comment below with preferences because he edits it
• Kat has already commented with thoughts below

[katquatermass]

I have a preference for title case when a title is 3 words or less but longer for in page headers if they are more than 3 words long
But it is a weak preference based only on taste

I have a preference for no end of bullet punctuation because I always forget to put them in - but that's just my laziness so am happy to be overruled. I don't mind about capitalisation at the start, just think we need to be consistent (and none of NCVO's complicated fancy rules about "it depends on what you put just before the list" even if they are grammatically accurate).

I have a preference for no Oxford commas (because journalism removes Oxford commas, so most people's online reading probably doesn't have them

[harryharrold]

I'm with you on title case - again, only a week preference, but I do believe long titles look clumsy in title case.

I have a pref. for no end-of-bullet punctuation, and no capital on the first letter. Essentially, though, this is because I never manage consistency with any other ruleset.

I have a preference for Oxford commas, but honestly this may just be geographical prejudice. I reckon writing can avoid them.