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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.
I am a capitalization minimalist, and believe that MOS tells us, and should, that when we have a choice of using a job title (which would be capitalized) or the same word as a job description (which would not), then we should prefer job description. However, there is another issue here.
It is a simple of matter of fact that people do capitalize titles when they stand in the place of names, just as other people do not. People do capitalize every instance of a title, just as other people put nearly everyone in lower case. This a question of style. As such, it should reflect best practices and actual usage.
Capitalize names of regions if they have attained proper-name status, including informal conventional names (Southern California; the Western Desert), and derived terms for people (e.g., a Southerner as someone from the Southern United States).
Most reliable sources do not consistently capitalize names of departments at universities. I have checked. If you investigate and find that a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources consistently capitalize department names, then show me your findings and we will compare. I see no need for WP to capitalize more than most newspapers.
If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "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." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...
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).
Overall, I have a real beef with some aspects of capitalization standards, when you start out a section, it should be capitalized with the exception of verbs. — Vesther (U * T/R * CTD) 22:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC) You are not alone, others have found our style to be unusual. Nevertheless, it is our style and has been from the beginning.