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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.
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.
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)
WP:MOSCAPS currently specifies this for titles of people (my emphasis): When an unhyphenated compound title such as vice president or chief executive officer is capitalized (unless this is simply because it begins a sentence), each word begins with a capital letter: In 1974 Vice President Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States by Chief Justice Warren Burger This does not ...
2020 stock market crash and 2012 phenomenon both treat the year as the first word of the title, and this seems to be a consistent interpretation of "first word", where unless it is a proper noun (which is the vast majority), a word trailing an initial year in the article title is not capitalized, exactly as SMcCandlish is suggesting. So it ...
That should be the title of the article, but the first letter should be capitalized since we use title case for article titles. Acronyms are created by taking the first letters of the constituent words and writing them together in capitals.
"State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".
It should only be capitalized when it is the first word in a sentence (although the word is normally preceded by the or an adjective) or is part of a part of a proper name, such as The Universe in a Nutshell (the title of a book), Nickelodeon Universe (the name of an amusement park), and Miss Universe (the name of a beauty pageant and the title ...