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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:
Both terms should be in italics. "De facto" should be in roman, but "de jure" should be in italics. The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., at 7.54 urges that when a familiar foreign word is used in the same context as a similar unfamiliar one, both terms be set in either roman or italics. I suggest that if the third is picked, then MOS should ...
The question of italics for titles of major works in non-Latin scripts has come up before, for example Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting/Archive 6#More clarity may be needed re titles of works in foreign languages, a discussion that concluded 20 June 2018.
Use italics when italics would be used in running text; for example, ... the titles of books, films, and other creative works ... are italicized both in ordinary text and in article titles. A discussion regarding a particular article title has raised the following questions which may deserve clarification within the guidelines:
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.
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 of the title of a work ( A Clockwork Orange , The Simpsons ).
Well, in formal writing, you should use italics/underlining, and Wikipedia is formal writing. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops ) 00:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC) [ reply ] Italics are normally used to differentiate between tiles and normal text in a block paragraph.
Reduce text written in all capitals in trademarks – see WP:Manual of Style/Trademarks. Reduce Latin quotations and terms from all capitals, [c] and put them in italics as non-English. As this is a form of transliteration, the Latin V should be normalized to v or u, as appropriate, per modern conventions for rendering Latin.