Thanks for writing this! I used to write it as Effective Altruism, and once I noticed that a lot of articles and people refer to it in lowercase, I switched to using that. But it wasn’t that clear to me why I should be using lowercase until you wrote this.
Anyway, I just noticed now that on the effectivealtruism.org website, the navigation bar says “Introduction to Effective Altruism”, and also the parts “Articles > Introduction to Effective Altruism”, the title of that post, and the link to that post on the homepage, under “Reading”. That is probably worth changing then to be consistent with CEA’s policy.
It might also be worth it to edit the logo on that website to say “Effective altruism” or “effective altruism”, for consistency. This would take a bit more work, and isn’t that high priority probably, but I thought I’d suggest it.
Also, a very minor note—the website seems to switch between title case and sentence case in a few instances. Ideally it would be more consistent. I assume sentence case is better, which is what 80,000 Hours uses.
Anyway, I just noticed now that on the effectivealtruism.org website, the navigation bar says “Introduction to Effective Altruism”, and also the parts “Articles > Introduction to Effective Altruism”, the title of that post, and the link to that post on the homepage, under “Reading”.
I think the only inconsistency I see is the capitalization of ‘effective altruism’ in the navigation bar. The ‘Introduction to Effective Altruism’ article is capitalized simply because all the articles in that section use title case. In any case, I agree with the overall point that it makes sense to make sure capitalization is consistent throughout the site (and I personally agree it should not be capitalized).
Given that the navigation bar text refers to an article with a capitalized title, I think its current capitalization is correct and consistent. It’s possible that “action” in “Take action” should be capitalized, though; I’ll give that some thought.
Yeah I realize now it’s capitalized probably because the article and multiple other pages are in title case rather than sentence case. I guess it’s okay then to keep the article title the same.
Thanks for writing this! I used to write it as Effective Altruism, and once I noticed that a lot of articles and people refer to it in lowercase, I switched to using that. But it wasn’t that clear to me why I should be using lowercase until you wrote this.
Anyway, I just noticed now that on the effectivealtruism.org website, the navigation bar says “Introduction to Effective Altruism”, and also the parts “Articles > Introduction to Effective Altruism”, the title of that post, and the link to that post on the homepage, under “Reading”. That is probably worth changing then to be consistent with CEA’s policy.
It might also be worth it to edit the logo on that website to say “Effective altruism” or “effective altruism”, for consistency. This would take a bit more work, and isn’t that high priority probably, but I thought I’d suggest it.
Also, a very minor note—the website seems to switch between title case and sentence case in a few instances. Ideally it would be more consistent. I assume sentence case is better, which is what 80,000 Hours uses.
I think the only inconsistency I see is the capitalization of ‘effective altruism’ in the navigation bar. The ‘Introduction to Effective Altruism’ article is capitalized simply because all the articles in that section use title case. In any case, I agree with the overall point that it makes sense to make sure capitalization is consistent throughout the site (and I personally agree it should not be capitalized).
Given that the navigation bar text refers to an article with a capitalized title, I think its current capitalization is correct and consistent. It’s possible that “action” in “Take action” should be capitalized, though; I’ll give that some thought.
Yeah I realize now it’s capitalized probably because the article and multiple other pages are in title case rather than sentence case. I guess it’s okay then to keep the article title the same.
Yeah, title case or proper case is common for page titles, article titles and headings (generally H1, H2, and often even H3).