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Changes to Fitzsimmons article

Hello. I undid the changes you made to Thomas Fitzsimons because you didn't provide any source material, and because many of the changes did not take an encyclopedic tone within the article. I did a quick search online looking at the typography of the name, and it seems that common practice throughout the historical community favours the non-capitalized s over the capitlalized S. Also, from what I understand of typography, such middle of the word capitlization may have been common when or before Fitzsimons was alive, but likely has been changed with the accent of standardized typography in book publishing. If you would like to suggest returning the capitlized S to the article, I suggest starting a conversation at Talk:Thomas Fitzsimons. I have also provide a template with useful links above, including a link to WP:Teahouse which is a good forum for new users to ask questions. I hope your editing experience on Wikipedia has been enjoyable. Happy editing! Sadads (talk) 16:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, when a number of sources publish information with contradicting capitilizations, we cannot rely on user opinions about things. Remember, Wikipedia is built on WP:Reliable sources. Because anyone can edit Wikipedia and create an account, we have no way to validate opinions are authoritative, thus we rely on authoritative source materials, and most of the publications I find using Fitzsimmons name do not capitalize the s. Also, my experience with typography (I am trained as a 17th and 18th century historian as well as English Literature) suggest that conventions used before the last 100 years, do not always sing true when compared to modern typographical standards, thus many words that traditionally had other capitilizations have now changed. This means that if the authoritative opinions, that is libraries and historians, are using the lower case s, then we should be using the lower case. You are arguing for one typographical choice, while the source materials are arguing for another. If you have a strong opinion, please prove, through proof in reliable source materials, that the capital S is the convention on Talk:Thomas Fitzsimons if you would like to make that change, Sadads (talk) 14:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]