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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.
The question comes down bluntly to whether MOS (which is Tony1's argument) says proper names in the title cannot be capitalized, or if RS, which capitalized things, is more important for the capitalization in a title.
Such words should not be capitalized except in a) the actual title of a piece of legislation, or b) a direct quotation, e.g. the "An Act to ..." summary that appears at the top of many pieces of legislation and serves as a long title, an incipit. Capitalizing something like "Parliament passed the Act on 3 February 2012" is exactly the same ...
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 ...
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.
For correctness, the convention should specify that ‘to’ when used as part of an infinitive should not be capitalized (unless it begins the title). Otherwise the examples “To Be or Not to Be” and “Failure to Launch” are inconsistent with the rule as stated. --Mathew5000 21:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
The stated (and rather common sense) purpose of our capitalization guidelines as laid out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) is that "because credibility is a primary objective in the creation of any reference work, and because Wikipedia strives to become a leading (if not the leading) reference work in its genre, formality and an adherence to conventions widely used in the genre ...