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Italics should only be used if the quoted material would otherwise call for italics. Use italics within quotations to reproduce emphasis that exists in the source material or to indicate the use of non-English words. The emphasis is better done with {}.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles ( a , an , or the ) as the first word ( Economy of the Second Empire , not The economy of the Second Empire ), unless it is an inseparable part of a name ( The Hague ) or of the title of a work ( A Clockwork Orange , The Simpsons ).
These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides. Do not apply italics to other categories or instances because you feel they are creative or artful (e.g. game or sport moves, logical arguments, "artisanal" products, schools of practice or thought, Internet memes, aphorisms, etc.).
For example, instead of adding a new section about capital letters, and mentioning scientific names both there and in the section about italics, we should have a section about scientific names where we say that they should be in italics, with the generic name capitalized. Peter Chastain 20:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
One source suggests websites should be italicized when being referenced: Hudson, Robert (2010). The Christian Writer's Manual of Style, p.279. ISBN 9780310861362. in a manner compatible with the Modern Language Association and the Chicago Manual of Style. Hyacinth 08:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC) They should be italicized as works like any other work.
With regard to words that shouldn't be italicized (CMS lists the examples of croissant, banh mi, pasha, Weltanschauung, [2] kaiser, obscure, recherché, bourgeoisie, telenovela, anime, eros, agape, and mise en scène), they all follow this criterion well. However, some words that should be italicized also fit this criterion.
Both terms should be in italics. "De facto" should be in roman, but "de jure" should be in italics. The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., at 7.54 urges that when a familiar foreign word is used in the same context as a similar unfamiliar one, both terms be set in either roman or italics. I suggest that if the third is picked, then MOS should ...
If something within a run of italics needs to be italicised itself, the type is normally switched back to non-italicized type: "I think The Scarlet Letter had a chapter about that, thought Mary." In this example, the title (" The Scarlet Letter ") is within an italicised thought process and therefore this title is non-italicised.