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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 ...
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.
The Use English forms precept suggests that we should translate them, but let's look at some examples to see whether too much awkwardness arises. — B.Bryant 23:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) For units from non-English-speaking countries, give the native language form of the name in parentheses and italics immediately after the bolded name of the article:
Type designations in units' names should be translated to the English-language equivalent. Note, however, that the general convention (above) calls for giving the native-language form of a unit's name in the introduction to an article about that unit, so in that case the designation may appear both ways:
Language names (such as English or Spanish) should always be capitalized, even when used as adjectives ("English literature", for example). Adjectives such as "ancient" should be capitalized when used as part of the name of a language. For example, "Ancient Greek".
In English a member of the Fusiliers Marins would be a French marine, so marine does not always mean USMC. If we capitalize marine, because the label they use is shared with the name of their organization, many people will feel we should also capitalize soldiers, sailors and airpeople too. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 23:18, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
“The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the ‘b’ in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly ...
In addition, it is potentially confusing for non-native English speakers, especially if the should-be-capitalized name is similar to other nouns, e.g. when reading an article about feminism, and seeing bell hooks mentioned in the middle of a sentence just like this, in lowercase, I stopped for a few seconds, not knowing what a bell hook is and ...