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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.
This template is used to make the first letter of the page title lowercase. It will not affect the page URL, just the displayed name. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Italic italic If this is specified with any value, italicize the title, except for any part in brackets. String optional Fully italic force If this AND "italic" have a value specified ...
If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can give context with the painter's wikilinked name, the title, and a date. The present location may be added in parentheses: ( Louvre ). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor".
Names of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, stars, constellations, and galaxies are proper names, and therefore capitalized (The planet Mars is in the constellation Gemini, near the star Pollux). The first letter of every word in such a name is capitalized ( Alpha Centauri and not Alpha centauri ; Milky Way , not Milky way ).
RS and academic usage does seem to support the outbreak terms, i.e. “Super Outbreak”, is capitalized, so the subheadings will remain capitalized. But, I will not fight or debate the article title being “ List of tornado outbreaks by “Outbreak Intensity Score”, since the creator is the one who capitalized it and the other source did not.
There is no "one way" to refer or call or name God in the broader Judeo-Christian tradition, see for the varieties of names as an example in Names of God in Judaism. This template is a blunder and must go ASAP. ... Delete. Unnecessary, redundant with Template:Sc, and a violation of Wikipedia conventions and the Manual of Style. ...
Following an official name change, Wikipedia does not automatically switch to the new one, but follows the most common usage in independent reliable sources written after the change. Previous names are often better placed in the article body (e.g. under a "History" section) than in the lead, especially if there are several of them.
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