Thread: Inconsistent capitalization of 6.2 location name

Originally Posted by Rongway

"Carcere" just means "jail/gaol". It's not a proper noun, so does not need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence.

I disagree on that aspect. If you just say "the carcere" that's fine, but "Carcere IV" is the specific carcere's name and I would expect it to be treated as a proper noun.

It's like the difference between "the high school" and "Exampleton High School".

Originally Posted by Rongway

That's not a great analogy. "Exampleton High School" is a named high school. If the high schools in an area were simply numbered, it would be fine to common case them: high school I, high school II, high school III, etc.

Cf. page 1, page 2, page 3; step I, step II, step III.

Disagree again, because it's a location. Think 'District 3', 'Ward III', 'Precinct III', 'Region III', etc. When elections role around, specific numbered precincts are often capitalized and treated as proper nouns because they encapsulate a whole area.

Hell there are whole townships and even businesses named after the ward they were recognized to exist in, like Ward III (which is a bar in New York), but that's a stretch.