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The Associated Press style guide agrees with the lower case. "Capitalize titles preceding and attached to a name, but use lower case if the title follows a name or stands by itself."71.2O2.86.94 —Preceding undated comment added 21:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC).
The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City.
Names of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, stars, constellations, and galaxies are proper names, and therefore capitalized (The planet Mars is in the constellation Gemini, near the star Pollux). The first letter of every word in such a name is capitalized ( Alpha Centauri and not Alpha centauri ; Milky Way , not Milky way ).
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.
Corporate publications typically follow either the AP style guide or the equally respected Chicago Manual of Style, often with entries that are additions or exceptions to the chosen style guide. A classic grammar style guide is The Elements of Style. Together, these two books are referenced more than any other general style book for US third ...
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.
I would put more trust in a non-government style guide. Note that the AP style guide says that "president" should only be capitalized as a formal title when preceding the name or names. It doesn't say to capitalize following the name, or the title standing alone. Binksternet 13:17, 29 December 2018 (UTC) User:Binksternet Yes.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.