Cloudbase or CloudBase?
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Cloudbase or CloudBase?
by Parker Gabriel » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:51 am
Is it Cloudbase or CloudBase? I thought it was two words when I first tried to submit to Kim Murphy-Smith's 'zine, Power Star, back in the '90s--sorry, Colonel Bishop. 
In my fiction, I always write it as CloudBase for that reason. Besides, the one time we saw the name used, in the title of that dream installment, it was in all capitals and so there was no way of knowing either way!
In my fiction, I always write it as CloudBase for that reason. Besides, the one time we saw the name used, in the title of that dream installment, it was in all capitals and so there was no way of knowing either way!
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by chrisbishop » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:42 am
There are various ways to check that out, and the information can easily be verified, actually.
All the official books published on the subject - most of them written by people who probably know about it more than we do, all of us combined - presented it as 'Cloudbase' - little 'B'. I have nearly all those books (Annuals from the era where the show was created, and technical books published in the following years), quite a collection of magazines, a series of various cards - all with the name with a little 'B'. Adding to that, the subtitles of the episodes on DVD have it as 'Cloudbase'. I have not seen CloudBase - capital 'B' - anywhere else but in the submissions you sent me.
There is really not argument here. All the evidences point to no capital in the middle of the name.
All the official books published on the subject - most of them written by people who probably know about it more than we do, all of us combined - presented it as 'Cloudbase' - little 'B'. I have nearly all those books (Annuals from the era where the show was created, and technical books published in the following years), quite a collection of magazines, a series of various cards - all with the name with a little 'B'. Adding to that, the subtitles of the episodes on DVD have it as 'Cloudbase'. I have not seen CloudBase - capital 'B' - anywhere else but in the submissions you sent me.
There is really not argument here. All the evidences point to no capital in the middle of the name.
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by Marion » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:14 am
Agreed, I have never seen it with a capital B either. Besides, if it was written with a capital, surely it would be Cloud Base (2 separate words) as they do with the Amber Room...?
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by hazel » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:55 pm
"Cloudbase", no middle capital, definitely. All the contemporary, official material refers to it like that.
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