Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1327106-20170426030842

Hey,

I have a question regarding the Manual of Style in regards to the possessive 's when a character's name ends in s. Generally when I write I follow the Chicago Manual on Style in regards to adding the s after a singular proper noun.

This means that when James owns a book it's written as "James's book."

However, I know some people prefer the AP style where it would be written as "James' book."

What is the AoT wiki's preference?

The reason I'm asking is because I used the Chicago style once and there was no edit, but then an admin edited me the second time I did it, and I'm not sure if that's because of an oversight or the admins themselves do not agree.

I was initially under the impression that the wiki used the Chicago Manual on Style, but on rereading the AoT Manual of Style the Chicago MoS is only mentioned for references. I personally can adapt to the AP style if that's what we are officially going to use. I just want to be consistent since I'll probably run into this issue again while I'm editing.

(Generally I try to avoid using the 's as much as possible to avoid this issue, but sometimes it's hard without getting clunky.) 