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To display text in italics, enclose it in double apostrophes. The Mary Tyler Moore Show is produced by italicizing around (not inside) the link: ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''. If the title is also a wikilink but only part of it should be italicized, use italics around or inside a piped link to properly display the title:
From The Chicago Manual of Style (8.202): Titles of operas, oratorios, tone poems, and other long musical compositions are italicized. Titles of songs are set in roman and enclosed in quotation marks, capitalized in the same way as poems (see 8.191–92). (8.205):
Italics should not be used for non-English text in non-Latin scripts, such as Chinese characters and Cyrillic script, or for proper names, to which the convention of italicizing non-English words and phrases does not apply; thus, a title of a short non-English work simply receives quotation marks.
That is incorrect. Short films are still films and use italics. Gonnym 19:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC) Reply Yeah, epsiodes of TV shows (and of similar things, like podcast series) go in quotes. But a short film like Pool Sharks (1915) goes in italics. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC) Reply Thank you both!
The lead says, "This part of the Manual of Style covers title formats and style for works of art or artifice, such as capitalization and italics versus quotation marks." I tried to remove "or artifice", because its use here struck me as odd, but Chaos5023 reverted saying the usage is fine.
In running text, the film's title should be italicized per Wikipedia's Manual of Style on italic type . Per Wikipedia's policy on article titles, the title of a film's article should use italics, just as the film's title would be italicized in running text. The template { { Infobox film }} includes coding to italicize the article title ...
e. This guideline covers the use of abbreviations —including acronyms and initialisms, contractions, and other shortenings —in the English Wikipedia . Maintaining a consistent abbreviation style allows Wikipedia to be read, written, edited, and navigated more easily by readers and editors. The style should always be consistent within a page.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles ( a , an , or the ) as the first word ( Economy of the Second Empire , not The economy of the Second Empire ), unless it is an inseparable part of a name ( The Hague ) or title of a work ( A Clockwork Orange , The Simpsons ).