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The adjective biblical should not be capitalized. Quranic is normally capitalized, but usage varies for talmudic, vedic, etc. Be consistent within an article. Do not capitalize terms denoting types of religious or mythical beings, such as angel, fairy, or deva. The personal names of individual beings are capitalized as normal (the archangel Gabriel
In the 17th and 18th centuries, it became common to capitalize all nouns, as is still done in some other Germanic languages, including German. In languages that capitalize all nouns, reverential capitalization of the first two letters or the whole word can sometimes be seen. The following is an example in Danish, which capitalized nouns until 1948.
Currently, there are a handful of articles on the Islam category page. Criteria that should be satisfied for inclusion of an Islam-related article in the Islam category are: Articles that are clearly representative of a major and well known aspect of Islam, such as Allah, Quran and Muhammad.
It seems strange that we should be debating the theological point here, but the guidelines say "God is capitalized only when it refers to the Judeo-Christian deity", and your question raises the point about whether "god" in the Hebrew Bible always refers to a single monotheistic deity.
The real key to NPOV should be consistency. So if we don't like religious titles in article names, then Saint Peter and the like should be moved to something like Peter (Christian apostle). A Buddhist should be able to compare the Christian and Islamic articles and see no preference expressed by Wikipedia.--Yannick 06:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Always capitalized: When using title case, the following words should be capitalized: The first and last word of the title (e.g. A Home to Go Back To) [f] Every adjective, adverb, noun, pronoun, and subordinating conjunction (Me, It, His, If, etc.) Every verb, including forms of to be (Be, Am, Is, Are, Being, Was, Were, Been)
While Christianity and Islam hold their recollections of Jesus's teachings as gospel and share narratives from the first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), the sacred text of Christianity also includes the later additions to the Bible while the primary sacred text of Islam instead is the Quran.
Based on your above comments, what do you recommend we should do to alter this page when it comes to capitalization of religion institutions and non-proper nouns and should we change the LDS guidelines as well?-Andrew c [talk] 03:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC) ←This guideline actually skirts the difficult case.