Thread:Gastropod/@comment-25753555-20160712231634/@comment-410526-20160713163610

JadenLan wrote:

Random captions question: should captions have periods or not? I just noticed some do and some don't. We don't currently follow any rule other than however we're feeling on the day. If we did want to enforce a rule, we would probably follow the rule that captions end in a period if they are complete sentences and still make sense without the context of the picture (otherwise they don't have a period). For example:
 * "The Vytal Festival tournament is held at Amity Colosseum." should have a period
 * "Amity Colosseum, venue of the Vytal Festival tournament" should not.

But as I said this rule isn't strictly followed here (the page I took the example from doesn't even follow the rule). I discussed this with Minomelo a year or so ago but we never got around to standardizing things because it was a lot of work for very little actual benefit (and it's not something you can use a robot to do).

Samurixx wrote: I guess I jumped the gun and over reacted I should of looked more closely at the content of what you were changing. I apologize for the trouble I caused you. I thought apart of a site and community I really love was being taken away but I was wrong and I am truly sorry for that. As I said I'm not removing the humorous captions entirely, just the misleading ones. I personally love the humorous captions because they add some character and self-awareness to the Wiki.

But to clarify: I have discussed this with the other admins and as I recall, the decision last time around was to remove all non-descriptive captions because they're unprofessional, including both of the above examples (yes, even the ones I left alone).

However, the decision wasn't implemented Wiki-wide just because there are a ton of captions on the Wiki. So the status quo of humorous captions staying remained. I was just very alarmed by the number of misleading, non-humorous misleading captions out here and decided to purge them the other day.