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Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
The "Minor works" section recommends double quotation marks for "Exhibits (specific) within a larger exhibition".The rationale seems to be that as the titles of (some) exhibitions take italics per MOS:MAJORWORK, the exhibits within them must correspondingly follow MOS:MINORWORK, like chapters within a book or songs within an album.
(See WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics for details.) Minor works (and any specifically titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks not italics, even when the title is not in English. (For details, see § When not to use italics.) These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides.
Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects: Titles with no parentheses are fully italicized: Foo → Foo; Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo; Titles which contain parentheses are italicized before the first opening parenthesis: Foo (bar) → Foo ...
For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {{ lang }} template), for an organism's scientific name , and to indicate a words-as-words usage.
I feel that serials are like music albums or books, in that they are complete items that should be italicized. This, regardless of their being a subset of a larger series. Book and film series sometimes have titles, and those, just like the individual book titles, are italicized, right?--Chris Griswold (☎ ☓) 10:47, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's a convincing argument that a game is a game, and not a major artistic work whose title should be italicized: “Game Over: On italicizing the titles of video games.” Worth a read. —Michael Z. 2012-01-24 16:52 z. His argument wouldn't carry much weight here, as we actually do italicize board game titles such as Monopoly.
The intent of the guidelines and the language templates that support them is to not italicize non-Latin-based scripts, with regard to italicizing titles of works, or material that is not English being italicized simply because it is non-English, or other reasons for italicization. Some scripts don't even support italicization in the first place.