This week's Inquirer: Do you want to be Mayor of the City of Philadelphia? You don’t have my vote.

If you can't run ads with proper capitalization, how can you run an entire city?

Now that the Philly mayor’s race is heating up, it’s time to evaluate the candidates on the only platform that matters: capitalization. No, Wharton bros, not finance capitalization — noun capitalization.

Two nouns in particular: mayor and city.

Neither is a proper noun. But that doesn’t stop many — including those who want to be it and lead it, respectively — from capitalizing both.

For the record: The only time mayor should be capitalized is when it immediately precedes that person’s name, as in, Mayor Jim Kenney. The only time the standalone city should be capitalized is if it starts a sentence. “I want to be Mayor of this City,” you say? Until you lowercase both mayor and city, you ain’t ready.

Let’s name names.

Read the full column at Inquirer.com.