User talk:Eelaraa
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on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Ariandi Lie Let's talk 17:13, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
This user is a student editor in Texas_AM_University/Technical_and_Professional_Writing_(spring_2024) . |
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[edit]Hello, Eelaraa, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:25, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Unnecessary capital letters in section headings.
[edit]Hello Eelaraa. Today I was reading Drag (physics) and I noticed some of the section headings had unnecessary leading capital letters so I edited the article to rectify the problem. Wikipedia’s Manual of Style specifies that the only words that are spelled with a capital letter when used in a section heading are proper nouns and the the first word. Please read MOS:HEADCAPS.
I checked the article history to find the origin of all the unnecessary capital letters in section headings. I could see that these changes were made by you on 17 March 2024. Please read MOS:HEADCAPS and help us achieve uniformity of section headings throughout Wikipedia. Thank you. Dolphin (t) 10:44, 5 April 2024 (UTC)