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All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements, newspaper headlines, and the titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". [1] All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym.
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.
Alternating all-caps and headline styles at the start of a New York Times report published in November 1919. (The event reported is Arthur Eddington's test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.) In English, a variety of case styles are used in various circumstances: Sentence case "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Caps (party), an 18th-century Swedish political faction; All caps, formatting text to only use capital/uppercase letters; Caps, Texas, Taylor County, Texas, U.S. Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy, a government program in Illinois, U.S.
No conversion, small-caps display, mixed case. Slightly reduced font size. This is the conventional display of smallcaps for acronyms/initialisms in modern book typography.
Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Good practices – official guideline; Wikipedia:Shouting things loudly does not make them true – An essay: "Insisting your opinion is correct without providing an intelligent explanation is the Wikipedia equivalent of shouting your opinion loudly until it is accepted as being true"
Wikipedia:UPPERCASE, an essay on shortcuts Topics referred to by the same term This page is a list of project pages associated with the same title or shortcut.
The English Wikipedia is perfectly free to choose not to use capitalization for this purpose (as it has decided for the English names of organisms), but there's a price to be paid, namely a greater need for care in writing to make sure the distinction the capitals would have made is always clear. Peter coxhead 12:28, 28 July 2017 (UTC) Indeed.