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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.
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 ...
The name of a new breed with a verifiable (not self-published) breed standard should be capitalized like any other standardized breed, whether the standard is accepted yet by major breed registries. Those without a breed club publishing a standard cannot be distinguished, in an encyclopedic way, from a local landrace or mongrel population, and ...
The name of a particular species is not capitalized: common chimpanzee, white-headed lemur. The name of a group of species is not capitalized: apes , ruffed lemurs . Alternative names should be mentioned where appropriate; in boldface in the article lead if they are in wide use, elsewhere in the article (usually again with the boldfacing) if ...
To clarify and confirm existing uncontroversial guidelines and conventions, and present them in a "quick-reference" table format, for inclusion into the guidelines for the capitalization of common names of species in order to: a) help prevent multiple page moves of existing articles; b) help ensure new articles are properly named when created
They are never capitalized. Names of higher taxa are capitalized but not italicized— Limulidae, Orthoptera, Crustacea. In the orders Odonata and Lepidoptera, common names may be capitalised; other common names should be in lower case. In cases where a group only contains a single subgroup, the two should not be separated.
A discussion of how information in the {{Infobox zodiac}} which appears in this article should be capitalized is in progress at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Capitalization in astrological sign infoboxes. Jc3s5h 16:02, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
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 ...