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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 inject or the template {} into a work title. If it seems important to use, do it after the title. Within a citation, it is better to use an HTML comment, e.g. |title=The Compleat Gamester<!--Original period spelling.-->. Do not use the templated version of {} inside citation template data at all, except in the |quote= parameter.
Do not capitalize "the" when using it in this way. Some derived adjectives are capitalized by convention, and some are not ( biblical , but Quranic ); if unsure, check a dictionary. Honorifics for deities , including proper names and titles, start with a capital letter ( God , Allah , the Lord , the Supreme Being , the Great Spirit , the Horned ...
Most reliable sources do not consistently capitalize names of departments at universities. I have checked. If you investigate and find that a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources consistently capitalize department names, then show me your findings and we will compare. I see no need for WP to capitalize more than most newspapers.
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.
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
Do not capitalize the word the in a trademark (see WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Institutions, and § Capitalization of The) regardless how the name is styled in logos and the like, except at the beginning of a sentence. [c] Titles of published works do have an initial The capitalized; bands and the like do not. Rarely, an exception may ...
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