Game proposal: Fix labels which should start with a lowercase letter

Lots of labels were imported from Wikipedia page names and therefore start with a capital letter when they should start with a lowercase letter. It's not something a bot can easily fix because lots are proper nouns, so I think a game would help.

I imagine it working a lot like the "Person" game: It would display the label, the language and an extract from Wikipedia, and have three buttons saying something like "Lowercase", "Not sure" and "Uppercase". "Lowercase" would make an edit to change it (like "Person") and "Uppercase" would say that it's correct as it is (like "Not a person").

It should only include labels which start with an uppercase letter, not symbols/punctuation or letters from scripts which don't have a case distinction (e.g. Arabic, Hangul). There's no point trying to lowercase something which has no case. :)

It should try to exclude things which are almost certainly proper nouns, e.g. instance of human, instance of city. Alternatively, it should include things which are often not proper nouns, e.g. instance of term, or things which have a subclass of statement.

I'm not sure how well this would work for German labels though.

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