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I took a quick scan of some online dictionaries. Most of them do not capitalize "petri dish". chouhouzi 14:17, 10 DEC 2008 Most paper dictionaries do not capitalize either, nor is capitalization the common usage in scientific writing. The article has been fixed. Piperh 19:29, 12 July 2009 (UTC) Petri should not contain a capital P.
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.
The Petri dish was developed by German physician Julius Richard Petri (after whom the name is given) while working as an assistant to Robert Koch at Berlin University.Petri did not invent the culture dish himself; rather, it was a modified version of Koch's invention [9] which used an agar medium that was developed by Walther Hesse. [10]
The text of captions should not be specially formatted (with italics, for example), except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text. Several discussions (e.g. this one ) have failed to reach a consensus on whether "stage directions" such as (right) or (behind podium) should be in italics, set off with commas, etc.
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
The short answer: Because it is not conventional to capitalize these elements across most academic writing (of which encyclopedic writing is a subset). That is, current English does not treat the relevant expressions as proper names (or as associated with proper names) in the ways covered by modern linguistic theory.
Some fruits, like berries and grapes, should definitely be refrigerated, while others, like bananas and tomatoes, do best on the counter. Still others, like cantaloupe, mangoes, and pears, can go ...
"State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".