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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.
"Republicans" (a meaningless political label no different from "Team Red") has a different meaning to "republicans", and the argument that because an adjective refers to a group of people it should be capitalized is not valid, or else anyone supporting the constitutional situation described by the term "republic" could be described as ...
Doctrines, philosophies, theologies, theories, movements, methods, processes, systems of thought and practice, and fields of study are not capitalized, unless the name derives from a proper name: lowercase republican refers to a system of political thought; uppercase Republican refers to a specific Republican Party (each being a proper name).
President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts.
Philosophies, doctrines, and systems of economic thought do not begin with a capital letter, unless the name is derived from a proper noun: Lowercase republican refers to a system of political thought; uppercase Republican refers to a specific Republican Party (each party name being a proper noun).
"State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".
The MOS should not prohibit "Black/white", as there was no consensus in the RFC to prohibit it. The MOS section should simply state: "There is no consensus as to the capitalization of color labels; any capitalization may be used (Black/White, black/white, Black/white), and editors should not change one capitalization style to another."
Grammarist.com: "President is capitalized when it comes immediately before the name of a president of a country. It is not capitalized when it refers to a president but does not immediately precede the name." CMOS says we do not capitalize "pope" unless used with the name. Thus we have "Pope Francis" but he is "the pope."