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Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
(See WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics for details.) Minor works (and any specifically titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks not italics, even when the title is not in English. (For details, see § When not to use italics.) These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides.
Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects: Titles with no parentheses are fully italicized: Foo → Foo; Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo; Titles which contain parentheses are italicized before the first opening parenthesis: Foo (bar) → Foo ...
For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {{ lang }} template), for an organism's scientific name , and to indicate a words-as-words usage.
Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects: Titles with no parentheses are fully italicized: Foo → Foo; Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo; Titles which contain parentheses are italicized before the first opening parenthesis: Foo (bar) → Foo ...
In running text, the film's title should be italicized per Wikipedia's Manual of Style on italic type. Per Wikipedia's policy on article titles, the title of a film's article should use italics, just as the film's title would be italicized in running text. The template {{Infobox film}} includes coding to italicize the article title automatically.
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that when you add the title of a book, film, album, magazine, or TV series to an article, it should be italicized by adding two single apostrophes ('') on both sides. Titles of television episodes, short stories and songs should be placed within quotation marks.
Here's a convincing argument that a game is a game, and not a major artistic work whose title should be italicized: “Game Over: On italicizing the titles of video games.” Worth a read. —Michael Z. 2012-01-24 16:52 z. His argument wouldn't carry much weight here, as we actually do italicize board game titles such as Monopoly.