Talk:List of English translations of De rerum natura

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As the Wikipedia article on Lucretius' work is named De rerum natura (lower case), shouldn't this article also be calledd List of English translations of De rerum natura?

PS: I think this list ought to be in Category:Literature lists. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:06, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing my new little article. Category is added. As to caps, I did notice the discrepancy, but assumed that the lowercase version was in error. De Rerum Natura is after all the proper name of a book. A quick search on Amazon reveals that most (though not all) instances capitalize each word. I'm certainly open to the change, but at this point it seems to me that the list is right and the main article is wrong. Is there a special Latin literature naming convention I'm missing? Phil wink (talk) 15:36, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia convention, in line with The Chicago Manual of Style, is to capitalise only proper names for all Latin-language works, eg Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Libri Carolini, but De architectura, De re publica, Ars grammatica, or, from more recent times, De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas. As can be expected, this convention is not fully implemented, and there are plenty of inconsistencies, eg Ars amatoria which uses Ars Amatoria as the page title but the lower case variant as the bolded headword. The WikiProject Opera has a similar convention: La traviata, La bohème, La voix humaine, or in this context, Oedipus rex and Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis. Similar rules are used at Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#Capitalization: original language titles. Hope this helps. Cheers, Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)