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Wikipedia conventions

Hello.

In Lulu smoothing and Data analysis techniques for fraud detection, you're using far too many capital letters. Wikipedia conventions codified in WP:MOS forbid capitalizing an initial letter merely because it's in a section heading or an aricle title. See my recent edits.

A more complicated problem arises when you start an article like this:

Fraud is a million-dollar business and it is increasing every year.

Someone tagged the article as being written like a personal reflection or essay because it began like that, and I agree. A Wikipedia article should begin with a factual statement saying what the article is about. You could say something like

Data analysis techniques for fraud detection rely on the use of computers for the purpose of.....

or something like that. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]