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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.
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.
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 ...
Often, yes, it is correct to ignore the stylized capitalization schemes selected for book jackets and use "normal" composition title capitalization rules for Wikipedia articles. Exceptions would probably be made in cases where other sources (e.g., reviews) also follow a book's non-standard capitalization scheme.
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 "
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 ...
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
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.