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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.
2) From When to Capitalize after a Colon via The Chicago Manual of Style: "In headlines or chapter titles or other display type, it’s normal to cap after a colon, even if the title or heading is in sentence case (see CMOS 8.158) and whether or not the part after the colon is a grammatically complete sentence."
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 ...
Generally, do not capitalize the word the in mid-sentence: throughout the United Kingdom, not throughout The United Kingdom. Conventional exceptions include certain proper names ( he visited The Hague ) and most titles of creative works ( Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings – but be aware that the might not be part of the title itself, e.g ...
RfC on mid-sentence and mid-article title capitalization of the in the full name of the LDS Church: 39: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 35#RfC on mid-sentence and mid-article title capitalization of the in the full name of the LDS Church: Capitalization in section headers that start with numbers: 12
Long spaces are correct only between complete sentences, not after every colon. If you want to have a long space these days, you should use a proper long space, not an ugly and problem-riddled substitute. Typesetting software generally automatically elongate spaces. You have to inhibit that where the automatic gets it wrong.
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)
We capitalize after a colon when what follows the colon forms a complete sentence. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC) @SMcCandlish: Per MOS:HEADCAPS, "Capitalize the first letter of the first word". Does not state to capitalize the beginning of a heading, but rather a specific character. The year is not really a word, it's ...