Inconsistent capitalization of "Mainnet"

[samajammin]

Describe the bug

Similar to #1727, we use a mix of mainnet & Mainnet when describing the primary Ethereum network.

e.g.

• https://ethereum.org/en/enterprise/
• https://ethereum.org/en/glossary/#mainnet
• https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networks/#mainnet

Expected behavior

We should come to an agreement on a canonical way to reference this term & update our content accordingly.

[wackerow]

I would say, in any use case if you theoretically replaced it with the word "network"... would you capitalize it? And in most cases, no, but if it's attached to the name of something, like Ethereum Network, or Matic Network, then it seems more appropriate to capitalize (as a formal name, or if it's contained within a title where every word is capitalized).
Curious what others have experienced with this elsewhere.

[samajammin]

@tasdienes any thoughts on this? How does EEA typically reference it? Looking at this press release, it seems to be mostly lowercase mainnet ( though there's some inconsistencies there as well):
https://entethalliance.org/eea-mainnet-working-group-forms-task-force-eminent-ethereum-mainnet-integration-for-enterprises/

[tasdienes]

So historically it has been mainnet, but there is a movement (started in the EEA) to make it Mainnet, like the Internet. As in there is only one Mainnet that businesses should be using, and the Mainnet is the Internet of value. I don't have really strong feelings either way, but I have tended to use Mainnet.

[wackerow]

FWIW: Searched through the ethstaker discord logs for "mainnet", where they are very active utilizing the term (especially recently, about 1000+ results), and by far lowercase "mainnet" is the most common (probably around 96-99% of usage). There is the occasional "MainNet" which I would definitely argue against. Then some rare mentions of "ETH2 Mainnet", which seem to be embedded in the Prysm client console logs.... but those logs also refer to lowercase "mainnet" elsewhere.

Just throwing that out there... seems like "mainnet" is historically most inline with peoples usage of the term, but if there is a formal movement to change that to more of an official name (ie. the Mainnet, and the Internet) then this would be the place to implement that change to help set the standard.

[ryancreatescopy]

I would advocate for mainnet. Even if we do want it to have the gravitas of Internet, common usage of that would more likely be internet.

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[samajammin]

Solved in #1909