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I'm pretty certain all of these are capitalized. I've compiled a list of words that in my experience are generally not capitalized in titles while all other words are. It seems to me that Wikipedia, IMDb, Amazon and books like movie guides etc. all follow this. These words are: a, an, and, as, at, by, for, from, in, of, on, or, the, to, vs., with.
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.
Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...
Title case (as used for book titles) is not used for list entries. Lowercase is best reserved for: lists introduced by a sentence fragment, with a short list of items, also fragments, continuing the extended sentence; glossary entries, where it is important to convey whether something is usually capitalized or not;
The title of this page is not a section heading, so the section-heading rule doesn’t quite apply here. Instead the title is governed by Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words, which starts as follows: Convention: Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun …
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 ...
A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with before and a space after; or use an em dash (—) without spaces. See Wikipedia:How to make dashes. Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash; and avoid using a hyphen for a minus sign.
As SchreiberBike said, we do so because that's the accepted style; first words and last words are more significant than middle words in titles, and are capitalized even whey they are short prepositions, conjunctions, or other words that wouldn't be capitalized in the middle of a title. -- JHunterJ 18:53, 7 April 2014 (UTC)