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Since 2017, the template automatically italicizes non-English material in a Latin script, so for minor works |italic=no should be set to prevent the title from being italicized, e.g.: "{{lang|de|italic=no|Hymnus an den heiligen Geist}}". This is because non-English proper names, including titles of minor works, should not be in italics.
Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...
Italicize names of books, films, TV series, music albums, paintings, and ships—but not short works like songs or poems, which should be in quotation marks. Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material ( She said, "I'm feeling carefree . " ); otherwise, put it after ( The ...
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).
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.
We already have a rule (see the Three Colors example) that a series title derived from part of the title of all the works in the series should be italicized as a title, and that's why we italicize in "the Harry Potter novel series" and "the Harry Potter film series". We didn't arrive at this result by doing a head-count of how many people off ...
(e.g. - Template:Zelda series) It seems to me that the purpose of the italics is to draw attention to a title for something (a game, a movie, etc) within a large paragraph, whereas in a template (a list of sorts) it seems to me it ought to permissable to leave out the italics. Thoughts?
The text of captions should not be specially formatted (with italics, for example), except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text. Several discussions (e.g. this one) have failed to reach a consensus on whether "stage directions" such as (right) or (behind podium) should be in italics, set off with commas, etc. Any one article ...