Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626063702/@comment-25626003-20150627002332

Admittedly, I hadn't looked into grammar guides at all during my lifetime and quite frankly, glad I haven't because as Dantman pointed out, nothing's uniform; it varies place to place, so this "conservative nature" of capitalization is new to me. This is why I'll respond to you Snapper, by saying that you're slightly misrepresenting my position. I never once said that the word was indisputably a proper noun because as I've said more than enough times, the word by itself is in no way a proper noun. However, in the context of what we're talking about, it's part of the name. Most nouns can become proper depending on how it's used. That's the case here.

"Uzumaki's clan" isn't a name at all, hence why "clan" is decapped. In that context, you're essentially using the word like a possession (in other words you're saying, this clan belongs to the Uzumaki). Same with "Uzuamki's hair", or "Uzumaki's fuinjutsu". "Uzumaki Clan" acts as one, and there's only one of "it". I'm no expert, but the definition of a proper noun is pretty clear and it shouldn't be dismissed just because you've seen it in a different form. In fact, you just admitted that the sentence: "Naruto is from a clan called the Uzuamki Clan" is technically accurate. How awkward it may seem to you shouldn't matter.