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Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...
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.
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.
The rule is repeated again at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)#Quotation marks where it provides the little bit of additional explanation: It particularly applies to works that exist as a smaller part of a larger work and gives some examples, but as for the rationale as to why it was decided to do it like that, it could likely be found in ...
This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse, meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar, or table with the collapsible attribute), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible. To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:
Transclusion from template: Involves Correct name Actual article name {{Italic title}} Title in italics To Kill a Mockingbird: To Kill a Mockingbird {{Italic title|all=yes}} Complete title in italics, including parentheses Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) {{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}} Phrase of |string= in italics
Add the title phrase parameter to search for something other than the entire pagename. If you use the title-phrase parameter, do not use quotation marks, as they are ignored. (The intitle search parameter does not recognise quotation marks in the title anyway, but it does require them around a phrase, and these are added automatically.) The ...
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