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For guidance after colons, see WP:Manual of Style § Colons. In a list, if each item of the list is a complete sentence, then it should be capitalized like any other sentence. If the list items are sentence fragments, then capitalization should be consistent – sentence case should be applied to either all or none of the items.
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#RfC on capitalization after a colon or dash 27 Oct 2023 – Result Letters after a colon or dash may be capitalized. Minor changes to MOS specific pages and sections. Talk:List of Ayatollahs#Requested move 17 October 2023 – Lowercase for plural of title?
For example, I would suggest adding a new sentence to (or right after) the first paragraph of MOS:SECTIONCAPS: "However, after a colon or dash, editors may choose whether to capitalize what follows, taking into consideration the existing practice (especially in other section headers in the same article)." And then give an example in two "green ...
It says that the first word after a colon is also capitalized when what follows the colon is an independent clause (emphasis mine), not in every case after a colon. Still, while APA suggest this, the Chicago Manual of Style suggest using lowercase after colon, unless what follows consists of two or more complete sentences . [ 1 ] —
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 ...
The random capitalization ― the “Radical Left Candidate,” “Second Debate,” “destroyed our Country” in that earlier Truth post example ― reminds Gillion of German, in that all nouns ...
Different rules exist also concerning the question whether the first letter after a colon should be capitalized. The following guidelines form a compromise between the various conventions in use. Do not use a capital letter after a colon. An exception to 1 may be made if the colon could be replaced by a full stop.
The caption should lead the reader into the article. For example, in History of the Peerage, a caption for Image:William I of England.jpg might say "William of Normandy overthrew the Anglo-Saxon monarchs, bringing a new style of government." Then the reader gets curious about that new form of government and reads text to learn what it is.