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The initial content list follows that of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related. The purpose of this supplementary manual is to create guidelines for editing articles in the English-language Wikipedia which relate to Hispanic cultures or the Spanish language to conform to a neutral encyclopedic style and to make things easy to read by following a consistent format.
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.
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.
Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are: Indefinite and definite articles ( a , an , the ) Short coordinating conjunctions ( and , but , or , nor ; also for , yet , so when used as conjunctions)
The Chicago Manual of Style, section 8.158: "In sentence-style capitalization, only the first word in a title, the first word in a subtitle, and any proper names are capitalized." As example they give: "The house of Rothschild: The world's banker, 1849-1999".
Capitalize only those prepositions that are five letters long or longer, are the first or last word of the title, are part of a phrasal verb (e.g., "Walk On" or "Give Up the Ghost"), or are the first word in a compound preposition (e.g., "Time Out of Mind", "Get Off of My Cloud").
The four letter rule should be softened or refined. Not all four letter words are the same. Not all usages of the same word is the same. Title case, which is preferred in creative titles, is not well defined. There is creative nuance in the capitalisation of certain words in title case that cannot be captured by counting characters.
In general, "over" is not capitalized in the middle of a title unless you capitalize all words in the title. Just because you can show one title of a work where the rule seems often to be ignored, that doesn't mean the rule doesn't exist.