Red-Line Editing: Worst Offender of the Month

Hello?
I rarely get too upset when I read bad content anymore. It seemed as though I’d plumbed the depths. But, no! Just when I think I’ve seen the worst, the depths get a little deeper! Here’s a new low! Steady yourself!
Montana Directory Your one-stop destination for anything you can think about montana. This Montana Directory is designed to help its users find the montana information, articles, source, companies, products and services.*
“Montana” typed as “montana” was red-lined in this content, so why wasn’t it corrected? I don’t see how somebody got this through spell-check. How can such a basic error, jaw-droppingly unforgivable for any reason but all the more so because it is this organization’s home state, get past anyone drawing breath? This is nuts!
Hey! Since when is the name of one of these United States of America not a proper noun? I mean, since when is the name of a state not capitalized? We learned that when, in second grade? First grade?
Okay, let me put this more positively: always capitalize the name of a state. There are no exceptions to this rule. This should have been “Montana” throughout. Capital “M” always.
Here’s the rule: You always capitalize a proper noun. A proper noun is a word like the name of a state (you moron!), or someone’s name, or, in the case of a “specialty” situation, a concept, like an acronym. Other examples of a proper noun would be the name of a company, a street name, or a trademarked term.
At any rate, I never thought I’d ever have to chide anyone (much less an educated nonprofit’s website editor, someone who should know better) about this fundamental mistake.
So—drum roll, please!—the “Red-Line Editing: Worst Offender of the Month” award goes to a religious nonprofit’s website that I visited five minutes ago, which shall go unnamed. Tsk, tsk.
*(Oh, how often do you really get to use an asterisk in writing! Love it!)
Rule: use asterisks rarely, if ever. What this rare asterisk means is that I’m giving you notice that “I changed the name of the state.”
I won’t tell you where the material I post comes from, though you may be able to find out.
It’s like this: I’m not trying to embarrass; I’m trying to educate.
I was very free with the italics in this post, wasn’t I? Well, I guess I’ll put it down to having an “italics kind of day.”