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Paste the publication date. Inside the brackets [] paste the url first with the article title to the right, and put both url and title inside the brackets. Remember to leave a blank space between url and title. For example, in editing mode if you type this
Correct name Actual article name {{Italic title}} Title in italics To Kill a Mockingbird: To Kill a Mockingbird {{Italic title|all=yes}} Complete title in italics, including parentheses Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) {{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}} Phrase of |string= in italics List of Ally McBeal episodes
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Novels published before the nineteenth century typically did not have visually standardized covers, but a reproduction of the title page can be a good alternative. These title pages can often be found in the Internet Archive. Once you have found a suitable image: Save it to your hard drive as a JPEG or PNG file. See preparing images for upload.
Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation, and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject. Naming conventions (capitalization) Always lowercase any words following the first in an article title, unless they are part of a proper noun. Naming conventions (country-specific topics)
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
Before declaring the current title to be "wrong" with the "correct title" template (or one of the more specific templates), please consider whether the title you are proposing as "correct" would really comply with Wikipedia conventions, particularly Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters) and ...
Where the use of an honorific title is widely misunderstood, this can be mentioned in the article; see, for example, Bob Geldof. Honorific titles used with forenames only (such as "Sir Elton", "Sir David", "Dame Judi") should be avoided unless this form is so heavily preferred in popular usage that the use of the surname alone would render the ...