Talk:History of Sherry

A fact from History of Sherry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the history of sherry has been greatly influenced by many of the world's major empires and civilizations including the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Moors, Spanish and English?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

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Sherry is more properly capitalized like Champagne (wine) is. I will work on getting this moved back to the proper capitalization. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 00:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here is an online example from Wine Enthusiast showing the capitalization of Sherry when describing it it in the proper noun context of the wine from the Jerez region. Sherry: A Unique Taste of Spain. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 01:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I just think theat this article should follow whatever lead the main article takes. It's somewhat awkward to have it capitalized here but not there. MisfitToys 02:52, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly disagree. Sherry is better seen as a category than a proper noun - we don't capitalize it for the same reason we don't capitalize wine or vermouth or whisky. The analogy to Champagne is strained: Champagne is also the name of an actual place, while sherry is based on a 500 year old anglicization of Jerez, which is itself only one of three main sherry-producing towns. Most importantly, though, sherry is almost never capitalized in written English - a single example from Wine Enthusiast aside - and so the article should follow that. I'm going to go ahead and change the capitalization now.

Merge

Wouldn't it be better to merge this article with the main article Sherry? --93.132.214.102 (talk) 23:28, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]