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Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
In printing this is known as sentence case, where the first letter of the sentence is capitalized, and all others are lower case with the exception of proper nouns. In printing, normal sentence case may be substituted by UPPER CASE or " all caps " (all letters are capitalized), and Title Case (where the first letter of each word is capitalized).
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 ...
Alternating all-caps and headline styles at the start of a New York Times report published in November 1919. (The event reported is Arthur Eddington's test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.) In English, a variety of case styles are used in various circumstances: Sentence case "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Talk:1912 World Hard Court Championships – Mixed Doubles#Requested move 8 January 2022 – Fix tennis subtitles to sentence case (in whole or in part); involves MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS, MOS:DASH, WP:NATURAL, WP:CONLEVEL, and other arguments – Decided to use sentence case for subtitles after dash in such sport article titles.
All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements, newspaper headlines, and the titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". [1] All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym.
Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a], sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters), or spongecase (in reference to the "Mocking Spongebob" internet meme) is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters).
The initial question here is about all-caps, which we are pretty much against ("avoid"), regardless of the original. The question then becomes what other case to use where the original was all-caps. I say use title case, as retaining some sense of the original's all-caps. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) 22:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)