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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.
(This is actually a slightly ambiguous case, because the movement could be described as "anti-communist" in the sense that it's against communism, or "anti-Communist" in the sense that it's against the Polish Communist Party, but given that there's no clear evidence on which to base the distinction, I'd go with the less marked form, which is ...
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. —Bagumba 07:43, 14 November 2024 (UTC) "Proper noun" invites confusion.
APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...
But it would not be capitalized in “Today the president signed a bill” or even “Today the president of the United States signed a bill.” Here are sections 8.21 and 8.22 of the 15th edition: 8.21 Capitalization: the general rule. Civil, military, religious, and professional titles are capitalized when they immediately precede a personal ...
Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') [1] [2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, [1] whose goal ...
The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...
There was no pre-existing consensus to never capitalize, and many articles already capitalized both terms (as do many RS, as the capitalization has been quite common since at least the 1980s, just not in news writing). The RfC didn't actually result in a consensus to undo that permissiveness, just a consensus against lopsided capitalization of ...