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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.
The name of an individual work within the series name: the Star Wars franchise, named for the Star Wars film; the Three Colours trilogy, named for films with the prefix Three Colours. Do not capitalize or italicize descriptive terms that are not part of an official series title (as with "franchise" and "trilogy" in those two examples).
The name has been adopted at least by a significant section of the English-language media and it is recognizable; The name is not easily confused with other clubs' names. In cases where there is some ambiguity as to the official spelling of a club's name in English, the name most commonly used by the English-language media should be used.
In English and most other languages with upper- and lower-case letterforms, the main elements in proper names are usually capitalized, though there is not quite a one-to-one relationship between fixed use of capital letters (as opposed to incidental capitalization, such as at the start of a sentence) and a text string being a proper name.
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
For example, instead of adding a new section about capital letters, and mentioning scientific names both there and in the section about italics, we should have a section about scientific names where we say that they should be in italics, with the generic name capitalized. Peter Chastain 20:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Language names (such as English or Spanish) should always be capitalized, even when used as adjectives ("English literature", for example). Adjectives such as "ancient" should be capitalized when used as part of the name of a language. For example, "Ancient Greek".