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Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2017-11-14 23:10:10

Hydra is not an acronym so it doesn't need to be capitalized. I have seen it written both ways in works. I am kind of thinking that this is like American v. British spellings and that neither is inherently more correct than the other.

Edit to add; I find it amusing that the bulk find / replace done on that page accidentally (and incorrectly) capitalized the word 'hydraulic' in a few places.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2017-11-15 20:55:00

I've seen Hydra both ways as well.

Amusingly, some comics I used to have had HYDRA when it was a label and Hydra when spoken.

Handling it like the US vs Commonwealth thing seems most sensible, since Marvel's been around HOW long? You could find contradictory examples for anything.

^And that is why you do a search, look, and replace. :p

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Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2017-11-15 22:57:50

^Actually after reading your comment about label as opposed to spoken makes me think that maybe it should be Hydra.

For military stuff if you see a stamp, label, title bar, patch, or something like that they are usually all caps (ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, or MARINES). But that doesn't mean that the words are all caps when you write them in general.

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bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2017-11-16 00:56:47

^^^ Find-and-replace (without context) sorta goes against our policy, as has been seen several times before with text replacement plugins. Whoever did that might need to be talked to.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
2017-11-16 11:52:10

It's largely a combo of how it was achieved via find-and-replace and the fact that, even if either version is technically correct, the all-caps spelling is a lot more consistently used across the MCU pages and the TWS page now seems like a large outlier, that makes me lean on reverting it.

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