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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:
The fact that some people I work with like to actually capitalize that way in memos, because they, too, do no understand capitalization in English doesn't mean that the workings of capitalization in English have suddenly changed, it just means they didn't pay attention in English class, and like other specialists when communicating to ...
The word "battalion" came into the English language in the 16th century from the French bataillon, meaning "battle squadron" (similar to the Italian battaglione meaning the same thing) and the Spanish batallón, derived from the Vulgar Latin noun battalia ("battle") and ultimately from the Classical Latin verb battuere ("to beat" or "to strike ...
“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 ...
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 ...