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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    The adjective biblical should not be capitalized. Quranic is normally capitalized, but usage varies for talmudic, vedic, etc. Be consistent within an article. Do not capitalize terms denoting types of religious or mythical beings, such as angel, fairy, or deva. The personal names of individual beings are capitalized as normal (the archangel Gabriel

  3. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Arabic

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    Example: Al-Qaeda should be indexed as "Al-Qaeda", not "Qaeda". Include particles such as Abu, Abd, Abdel, Abdul, ben, bin and bint as part of the name. When found in modern surnames, such names are considered compound names and the particles are integral to the name. Example: Osama bin Laden should be indexed as "Bin Laden, Osama".

  5. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    Some of these terms should be capitalized in particular contexts, e.g. Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Indigenous in several contexts including Alaska and Canada, and Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. However, it simply is not normal English, no matter how many advocacy pushers fight for it change, to capitalize these terms ...

  7. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes)

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    The United Nations updated their Editorial Manual to include that "Indigenous should be capitalized when referring to cultures, communities, lands, languages, etc., of Indigenous Peoples, e.g.: Indigenous culture in Ecuador, Indigenous languages are dying out. If referring to flora or fauna, lower case should be used."

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 4

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    "State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Organisms

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    A graft chimera name (usually a portmanteau of the names of the parent genera or species) should be capitalized and put in the {} template. This will ensure that A) the name is preceded by the interpolated prefix "+", then B) a hair space character (coded as &8202; , which works in all modern browsers) between "+" and the following name; [ f ...