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On Wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters (such as NATO, BBC, and JPEG).Wikipedia does not follow the practice of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms; unless that is their common name, do not write word acronyms, that are pronounced as if they were words, with an initial capital letter only, e.g., do not write UNESCO as Unesco, or NASA as Nasa.
This is also a guideline at WikiProject Classical music which says to "For Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese titles, capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns (names of particular people or places) in that language". So you have two WikiProjects which support foreign-language titles using its native capitalization.
Such distractions are a major reason for Wikipedia's style guide adopting a simple default rule, the first one at WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters (or WP:MOSCAPS): Do not capitalize an expression unless the overwhelming majority of independent reliable sources do so for that specific expression, in the context of the relevant article.
The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...
Do not add Nation onto a name for a group of people, unless that term is part of their official title, for instance, the Cherokee Nation. See US Native tribes (Lower 48) and Alaska Native tribes. For ethnic group articles, the standard is to use their common name or their common name plus people, such as Cowlitz people.
The stated (and rather common sense) purpose of our capitalization guidelines as laid out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) is that "because credibility is a primary objective in the creation of any reference work, and because Wikipedia strives to become a leading (if not the leading) reference work in its genre, formality and an adherence to conventions widely used in the genre ...
President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts. The president has been criticized for his unconventional way of capitalizing ...
Dictionaries do not capitalize universe, or allow it either way, and where it's either way that supports Choice 2 because MOSCAP says don't capitalize unless a word is capitalized consistently. N-grams that we have tried show lower case is more popular in printed books that Google is aware of (and yes we tried with astronomical phrases).