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The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City.
APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...
Seasons (e.g. winter) and plant/animal names (e.g. bald eagle) are not capitalized. Exceptions include scientific names (Felis catus) and proper nouns occurring as part of a name. Names of scriptures are capitalized (e.g. Bible and Qur'an, but not biblical).
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.
Here a university's style guide, a supplement to the AP guide, lowercases "university" when referring to itself (though it doesn't specifically say to do so; as in 'Capitalize the formal names of schools, academic departments and divisions of the university.').
The AP Stylebook does not weigh in on this particular issue, although it does say that trademarks should be capitalized. There are many articles in Category:Articles whose titles are initialed a lowercase letter which have been miscapitalized. You can rest assured I am working through them.
Looking at the AP Style Guide and the Chicago Style guide where they also tell us not to capitalize sun and moon. And Chicago Style guide goes further with the earth. It is not to be capitalized even when talking about it as a planet or our own earth. Only capitalize it when talking about other bodies that are also capitalized. So the rocket ...
The entire AP Stylebook sphere is essentially a single source, and is questionably relevant at all on a style decision like this, because their choices on many things (including this one) do not align with other types and writing and publishing, which follow other style guides.