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True titles are specific to a single work. These are titles given by the composer, much as an author titles a novel. True titles are always italicized: From me flows what you call time; Pelléas et Mélisande; When true titles are mixed with generic titles, as is often the case in overtures and suites, only the true title is italicized. The ...
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.
Use italics for the titles of works (such as books, films, television series, named exhibitions, computer games, music albums, and artworks). The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks.
Song titles are enclosed in quotes. True titles of song cycles are italicized. Foreign language song titles remain in roman type. Generic movement titles (such as tempo markings) are capitalized and in roman type. True movement titles are enclosed in quotation marks.
Partially italicized article titles are likewise unusual for compositions (that is, apart from never italicizing comma-separated and parenthetical disambiguators): William Tell Overture ("Overture" not italicized while the composition is a part of a larger work, the opera with the same name – compare Coriolan Overture, not part of a larger work)
Italicize names of books, films, TV series, music albums, paintings, and ships—but not short works like songs or poems, which should be in quotation marks. Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material ( She said, "I'm feeling carefree . " ); otherwise, put it after ( The ...
Here's a convincing argument that a game is a game, and not a major artistic work whose title should be italicized: “Game Over: On italicizing the titles of video games.” Worth a read. —Michael Z. 2012-01-24 16:52 z. His argument wouldn't carry much weight here, as we actually do italicize board game titles such as Monopoly.
"In popular music, album titles should be in italics, and song and single titles should be in quotes (for example The Beatles's song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" comes from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). Perhaps you should ask at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Music to be sure. A l i c e 21:27, 26 December 2007 (UTC)