I wasn't going to get into this rather silly debate but did want to point out  that we have a Pizza joint here in British Columbia named MeNeds .. .and it was until years later that I found out the name was pronounced Me N Eds ....   

So looking at everything you all refused to believe or disbelieve .,
Maybe the title could be Me an Girls ..

Please do not think I am trying to be stubborn or inflexible - I am trying to understand.

Why is it wrong? The link you point out directs me to a forum posting. The forums are not the rules and are not what I base my contributions on.

The rules specifically address when we are to change the capitalization of the title. I do not see any rules that tell me to change the the capitalization from lower case to higher case.

Based on the rules, I believe that the examples in the link you posted are incorrect. Or, as Hal points out in the second posting, invelos needs to change the rules to read "all verbs are capitalized".

As the rules are currently written, they do not tell us to capitalize all verbs.

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You see, that's what I don't get. Are you really saying we should treat

and

differently when we enter the title into Profiler?

Should we?  Absolutely not.  Is that what the rules tell us to do?  Unfortunately, yes.

I will admit that I was not aware of this rule until this thread.  I don't know why it was added nor do I know why it was worded the way it was.  It is unfortunate, and needs to be changed.  Until then, however, it is what it is.

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This part has been added as a clarification when people have argued that "run together" words are not separate words any more. But please note that the clarification does not exclude other methods of splitting words. And in this concrete case I see no point in arguing that "mean" and "girls" are not separate words. In graphic arts there are a lot of possibilities to separate individual words. In databases we usually use a space character.

If the clarification was for when people have argued that 'run togehter' words are not separate words any more, the rule should have read "If the title is shown run together, use standard spacing."  As written, the rule gives two, very specific conditions, as to when we can use standard spacing.

As I said in my earlier post, I don't know why this rule was added.  Prior to this, for the reasons you stated, I never would have thought twice before entering this title as 'Mean Girls'.  Unfortunately, the rule now ties my hands. 

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Kathy, you are actually correct.  The current Rule does not tell us to capitalize everything except "connecting" words, even though it is certainly inferred from the way I read it...and I have always entered titles by capitalizing everything but "connecting" words.

However, I think this is an error in the way the Rule is written.  We should simply enter the title using standard capitalization Rules for Titles.  We don't need all that verbiage about connecting words at all.  If you follow standard capitalization rules for titles (in English), then both "Is" and "It" would be capitalized.

Thank you Hal - I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't find the relevant capitalization information in the rules! 

Has this error in the way the rules are written be brought up in the Rules Committee? Or, is this request been addressed before?

I will withdraw that section of my contribution since it is logical to follow the standard capitalization rules that are currently in place.

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It has been addressed by us, but never by Ken.  It couldn't hurt to bring it up again.

I have submitted this to the Rules Committee.

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But we DO differentiate based on FONT, (...)

I agree, even though font is not one of the methods mentioned in the rules. But as I have said, the rules do not exclude those other methods.

Shirley you don't think that the Rules can comprehensively exhaust every possibility, if you do then you are in la la land (being flip) there is ALWAYS going to be something which you or someone can point at and say this particular issue is not in the rules.

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If the clarification was for when people have argued that 'run togehter' words are not separate words any more, the rule should have read "If the title is shown run together, use standard spacing."  As written, the rule gives two, very specific conditions, as to when we can use standard spacing.

Yes, they give specific conditions when we have to use standard spacing. That does not mean there are no other situations where graphics should be converted to spaces.