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Capitalize only those prepositions that are five letters long or longer, are the first or last word of the title, are part of a phrasal verb (e.g., "Walk On" or "Give Up the Ghost"), or are the first word in a compound preposition (e.g., "Time Out of Mind", "Get Off of My Cloud").
The definite article the in the middle of two or more titles is sometimes capitalized, as in these tables. However this is controversial: traditional British guides use the lower-case the . As a single example, Debrett's gives "Major-General the Lord ...", [ 6 ] and Pears' Cyclopaedia in the section on Modes of Address gives several examples ...
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.
Sometimes the title-and-subtitle style with a colon works: Neoclassicism: antiquity recreated in an 18th-century mode. It is usually unnecessary to state what kind of image is being shown. A map of the world showing NATO member countries can be captioned simply NATO members rather than Map of NATO members.
However, if the title of the article is the stylized version of the name (e.g. tvOS), it should be given in the boldfaced title recapitulation at the beginning of the lead (i.e., not in a "stylized as" note), and used throughout the text (and, in most cases, in other articles that mention it). The lead may also have a note (e.g., "sometimes ...
In titles (including subtitles, if any) of English-language works (books, poems, songs, etc.), every word is capitalized except for the definite and indefinite articles, the short coordinating conjunctions, and any short prepositions. This is known as title case. Capitalization of non-English titles varies by language (see below). Wikipedia ...
Much of WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles should merge into WP:Manual of Style/Titles#Capitalization, with just a summary of key points being retained at MOSCAPS, and an even more compressed version at the main MOS page. We have these topical subpages for the express purpose of serving as "for more information" loci, with ...
The simplest de-capitalization rule is to capitalize if, and only if, the title is directly used as a title in front of a name, so "President Nixon" but everywhere else "president". Such a rule could actually be followed.