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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.
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.
A standard formula for a first sentence is "In [field name], subject is..." Titles of articles and titles of sections use as much lowercase as possible: only the first word of the title, and proper names within the title, should be capitalized. The same is true for references to other concepts within the text of an article: write "minimum ...
Capitalize other titles only when they precede the name, else they are lower case. Examples: den leader; district executive; council commissioner; adviser (when referring to an Order of the Arrow adviser) When a title includes words that are capitalized per the first rule, only those words are capitalized unless it precedes the name. Examples:
The lead para currently states: "For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper noun that would always occur capitalized, even in the middle of a sentence." What about a proper noun (multi-word) that is not normally capitalized?
The following examples serve to describe the range of situations for particular infobox images: No caption – Infoboxes normally display the page name as the title of the infobox. If nothing more than the page name needs to be said about the image, then the caption should be omitted as being redundant with the title of the infobox.
From the Military terms section, "Formal names of military units, including armies, navies, air forces, fleets, regiments, battalions, companies, corps, and so forth, are proper names and should be capitalized." Formal names being specific units and branches like U.S. Marine Corps or Royal Navy but not general terms like French airman or U.S ...
These conditions are sometimes met if the Wikipedia article name is: the title of a work or publication (e.g., The Old Man and the Sea, or The New York Times), or; the official or commonly used name or nickname of a group, sports team or company (e.g., The Beatles, "The Invincibles", The Hershey Company), or