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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.
Such distractions are a major reason for Wikipedia's style guide adopting a simple default rule, the first one at WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters (or WP:MOSCAPS): Do not capitalize an expression unless the overwhelming majority of independent reliable sources do so for that specific expression, in the context of the relevant article.
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.
Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are: Indefinite and definite articles ( a , an , the ) Short coordinating conjunctions ( and , but , or , nor ; also for , yet , so when used as conjunctions)
However, do not impose such a symbol simply to mimic a graphical logo: Gulf and Western Industries not Gulf+Western. When a company name contains a numeral, do not substitute a spelled out version: 3M, not ThreeM. Non-alphanumeric symbols found in logos and other trademark stylizations are not used in Wikipedia article titles: Macy's not Macy★s.
In fact, it refers to reliable sources. If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "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." Looking at ...
Capitalize the initial letter (except in rare cases, such as eBay), but otherwise follow sentence case [e] (Funding of UNESCO projects), not title case (Funding of UNESCO Projects), except where title case would be used in ordinary prose. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). To italicize, add {{italic title}} near the top of the ...
Boldface is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead.This is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not (see § Other uses, below).