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I'm a bit hesitant on whether the title should be capitalized or remain lowercase. On the one hand, [https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/manuals/DS_New_Super_Mario_Bros.pdf the ''NSMB'' manual] has referred to the move as "shell dash" once, "shell dashing" once, "Shell Dash" once, and "shell-dashing" twice, which ''kind of'' provides some sort of argument for using lowercase treatment. On the other hand, there have been many instances of official Nintendo materials inconsistently alternating between capitalizing certain words making up a subject and just giving it the lowercase treatment. They even do this within their own games; in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'' for example, the narration text for collecting a key item gives it a lowercase treatment, but the game's key item menu capitalizes the words making up the subject. So, leading back to my first sentence...which shall it be? {{User:Archivist Toadette/sig}} 23:52, October 29, 2021 (EDT)
I'm a bit hesitant on whether the title should be capitalized or remain lowercase. On the one hand, [https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/manuals/DS_New_Super_Mario_Bros.pdf the ''NSMB'' manual] has referred to the move as "shell dash" once, "shell dashing" once, "Shell Dash" once, and "shell-dashing" twice, which ''kind of'' provides some sort of argument for using lowercase treatment. On the other hand, there have been many instances of official Nintendo materials inconsistently alternating between capitalizing certain words making up a subject and just giving it the lowercase treatment. They even do this within their own games; in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'' for example, the narration text for collecting a key item gives it a lowercase treatment, but the game's key item menu capitalizes the words making up the subject. So, leading back to my first sentence...which shall it be? {{User:Archivist Toadette/sig}} 23:52, October 29, 2021 (EDT)
:I think that can be answered by comparing the [https://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/nintendo_ds_21/Manual_NintendoDS_NewSuperMarioBros_EN.pdf British English version] - note that it capitalizes a handful of things that remained uncapitalized in the American English manual (see P Switch Blocks, ! Switch Blocks, and ? Switch Blocks under "Switch Blocks"), yet they did not care to edit the lowercare instances of shell dash and shell-dashing/shell dashing, and they did mind to edit that body of text to remove highlights and add a mention of the Control Pad by name, so this is something that could have easily been done (on a similar note, I also feel the same way about "ground-pound switch", which is like that across multiple manuals and versions). These manuals treat this as mere stylization for the header text, like it does for other objects and actions such as block, fence, stomp, slide, etc. I think that's a separate discussion from key items in the RPGs, in which the main text the player will be seeing is through the menus. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 05:40, October 30, 2021 (EDT)

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