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A company name that begins with a lower-case letter, and which is conventionally written this way by the vast majority of independent sources, should be in such a form in Wikipedia content, but will end up at a title that begins with a capital letter because of how our MediaWiki software handles letter case.
Usernames that resemble IP addresses (as these are expected to designate non-logged-in users), timestamps, or other names which would be confusing within the Wikipedia signature format. Usernames that appear similar to naming conventions used by community administrative processes, such as those starting with Vanished user (see Wikipedia ...
Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Categorization for templates used for categories; Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format article references and citations; Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Proper names – guideline for proper names, e.g. place names and personal names; Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) – more on place names, including the use of alternate names, contemporary names and transliterations, with some advice potentially applicable to non-geographic names
A free open source tool to convert from CSV and Excel files to wiki table format: csv2other; Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy & paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header. [2]
For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing <ref> at the front of the citation and </ref> at the end. . Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a <ref></ref> button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will ...
If you still think an article is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Your first article. You might also look at Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before
native_name – name of newspaper in its native language/script; motto – motto of newspaper. Use only if it is closely associated with the newspaper and of historical significance; omit otherwise. type – frequency and type, i.e. Daily newspaper; format – page format, i.e. Broadsheet, Berliner, Tabloid, Compact; school – for school ...