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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.
An indefinite or definite article is capitalized only when at the start of a title, subtitle, or embedded title or subtitle. For example, a book chapter titled "An Examination of The Americans: The Anachronisms in FX's Period Spy Drama" contains three capitalized leading articles (main title "An", embedded title "The", and subtitle "The").
The question comes down bluntly to whether MOS (which is Tony1's argument) says proper names in the title cannot be capitalized, or if RS, which capitalized things, is more important for the capitalization in a title.
First of all, MOS:CAPS has nothing to say about this; it only deals with directions as parts of place names (e.g., Southern California, which does get capitalized). Every usage guide I've found says that "downtown [anywhere]" does not get capitalized. Yes, it does indicate a specific place, but that has nothing to do with capitalization.
But actually there is no policy on the capitalization of articles, there is a guideline, and since 2003 that guideline said that bird species names get capitalized - until the confusing wording of January of this year was added, saying that there was a proposal to capitalize bird species names, and you make it sound like they are using local ...
For as long as Trump has been tweeting, he's demonstrated a bizarre habit of capitalizing words that typically don't get capitalized. He routinely capitalizes words like border, country, safety ...
But it would not be capitalized in “Today the president signed a bill” or even “Today the president of the United States signed a bill.” Here are sections 8.21 and 8.22 of the 15th edition: 8.21 Capitalization: the general rule. Civil, military, religious, and professional titles are capitalized when they immediately precede a personal ...
Do not capitalize the word the in a trademark (see WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Institutions, and § Capitalization of The) regardless how the name is styled in logos and the like, except at the beginning of a sentence. [c] Titles of published works do have an initial The capitalized; bands and the like do not. Rarely, an exception may ...