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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.
Viruses are so narrowly named at the species level (e.g. Human herpesvirus-5) that including the genus would usually be superfluous, and they are capitalized like a genus. The word "virus" at the end of a viral species or genus name is not capitalized. Higher taxa (family, order, etc.) are capitalized but not italicized.
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
They are never capitalized. Names of higher taxa are capitalized but not italicized— Limulidae, Orthoptera, Crustacea. In the orders Odonata and Lepidoptera, common names may be capitalised; other common names should be in lower case. In cases where a group only contains a single subgroup, the two should not be separated.
Ligatures should be used in languages in which they are standard (hence Moreau's last words were clin d'œil is preferable to Moreau's last words were clin d'oeil) but not in English (encyclopedia or encyclopaedia, not encyclopædia), except in proper names (Æthelstan, not Aethelstan).
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 ...
Capitalize other titles only when they precede the name, else they are lower case. Examples: den leader; district executive; council commissioner; adviser (when referring to an Order of the Arrow adviser) When a title includes words that are capitalized per the first rule, only those words are capitalized unless it precedes the name. Examples:
The first word in a compound preposition (e.g., Time Out of Mind) Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are: Indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the) Short coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor ; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)