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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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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.

  3. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 38

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    APA also says to capitalize after a colon in sentence case titles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wracking 💬 02:20, 18 May 2023 (UTC) It says that the first word after a colon is also capitalized when what follows the colon is an independent clause (emphasis mine), not in every case after a colon.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can give context with the painter's wikilinked name, the title, and a date. The present location may be added in parentheses: ( Louvre ). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor".

  6. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 33

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    We capitalize after a colon when what follows the colon forms a complete sentence. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC) @SMcCandlish: Per MOS:HEADCAPS, "Capitalize the first letter of the first word". Does not state to capitalize the beginning of a heading, but rather a specific character. The year is not really a word, it's ...

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    For titles with subtitles or parenthetical phrases, capitalize the first word of each element, even if it would not normally be capitalized, if the element is either: A clause that can stand alone as a title and is sometimes used that way, as a short name: " (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I "

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 1

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    The section "Titles" is creating significant problems as to the capitalization of military titles when used in a sentence. For example someone edited Eric Shinseki to change Chief of Staff of the Army to chief of staff of the army - correct according to the section "Title" however not valid according to the Chicago Manual of Style.

  9. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 22

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    the (capitalized) title (not necessarily the formal, official title) of an office (typically unique in a given context), such as President of the United States and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – possibly including shortened versions such as "the Prime Minister" when referring to such a unique office