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However, these may be italicized for other reasons, including when the name itself is being referred to. For example, non-English names listed as translations in the lead of an article should be italicized, e.g. Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg). Non-English names of works should be italicized just like those in English are, e.g. Les Liaisons ...
Online magazines, newspapers, and news sites with original content should generally be italicized (Salon or HuffPost). Online non-user-generated encyclopedias and dictionaries should also be italicized (Scholarpedia or Merriam-Webster Online). Other types of websites should be decided on a case-by-case basis. [b]
Looks like you answered your own question. Names of Web sites don’t get italicized. --Rob Kennedy 08:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Well, this question has come up before, but it needs to be addressed on the project page. Web site titles ought to be italicized because they are stand-alone works like everything else on the italicized list.
The reader must be able to determine the source of any quotation, at the very least via a footnote. The source must be named in article text if the quotation is an opinion (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view § Attributing and specifying biased statements). When attributing a quotation, avoid characterizing it in a biased manner.
For reference books, which includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, and glossaries, the book title is preceded by the word In. It is not italicized, but the book title following it is. The book title appears in sentence case. You capitalize the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns. The URL must go to the exact page that you ...
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Other writing systems did not develop such sophisticated rules since spacing was so uncommon therein. In Cyrillic typography, it also used to be common to emphasize words using letter-spaced type. This practice for Cyrillic has become obsolete with the availability of Cyrillic italic and small capital fonts.
Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic.The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may contain a lead image which is representative of the topic, and/or an infobox that provides a few key facts, often statistical, such as dates and measurements.