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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.
A similar example is a list of corporate officers, with capitalized titles for courtesy reasons. Another example is in political presentations, the capitalized titles adding gravity. But for everyday stuff such as encyclopedia articles, CMOS is firm about writing Donald Trump, president of the United States, with lower-case
The question comes down bluntly to whether MOS (which is Tony1's argument) says proper names in the title cannot be capitalized, or if RS, which capitalized things, is more important for the capitalization in a title.
Sometimes the title-and-subtitle style with a colon works: Neoclassicism: antiquity recreated in an 18th-century mode. It is usually unnecessary to state what kind of image is being shown. A map of the world showing NATO member countries can be captioned simply NATO members rather than Map of NATO members .
The "job titles in my field must be capitalized by convention" pseudo-rule is one of the most frequent, and was one of the specialized-style fallacies that inspired that essay to begin with. I'm thus inclined to support always using lower-case for job titles (in the broadest sense), except when doing so produces an ambiguity that may confuse ...
For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following: Capitalize the initial letter (except in rare cases, such as eBay), but otherwise follow sentence case [e] (Funding of UNESCO projects), not title case (Funding of UNESCO Projects), except where title case would be used in ordinary prose.
I am a capitalization minimalist, and believe that MOS tells us, and should, that when we have a choice of using a job title (which would be capitalized) or the same word as a job description (which would not), then we should prefer job description. However, there is another issue here.
The title of a published work may have additional considerations, including particular uses of italics or quotation marks (which may affect link formatting and display control of the page title), capitalization norms that vary by language, etc. (See WP:Manual of Style/Titles of works.)