Talk:Scattered disk object
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In its article Quaoar zet Pluto op zijn plaats (Quaoar puts Pluto in its place) Eos, a Belgian scientific magazine, mentions Scattered Disk Objects, with capitalization. It also mentions the abbreviation SDO. I'd like to know the reason(s) why the capitalization is supposed to be wrong -- if it is, shouldn't the abbreviation be sdo? Of course, a Belgian magazine (even if it is scientific and cooperates with Scientific American) is hardly an authority on language and spelling :-) D.D. 19:37 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
- I think the capitalization of the phrase in that magazine probably was simply a matter of conforming to that magazine's style conventions. Wikipedia also has style conventions, which eschew capitalization in titles except for the first letter and for proper names or other generally capitalized words. It is commonplace to capitalize letters in abbreviations of this kind when the words are not capitalized when they are not abbreviated. Michael Hardy 21:08 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
AFAIK there is nothing wrong with excentric. According to my dictionary it is accepted as a variation of eccentric in technical senses. D.D. 19:48 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)