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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.
Names of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, stars, constellations, and galaxies are proper names, and therefore capitalized (The planet Mars is in the constellation Gemini, near the star Pollux). The first letter of every word in such a name is capitalized ( Alpha Centauri and not Alpha centauri ; Milky Way , not Milky way ).
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.
a dish with tuna, potatoes, onions, pimientos, and tomatoes. Patatas con costillas adobadas Province of Ávila: stew a dish with potatoes and marinated pork chops Olla podrida: Castilla y León and Extremadura: stew a Spanish stew made from pork and beans and other meats and vegetables Ollada or perolada Catalonia and Valencian Community: stew
Paella is a Valencian word that means frying pan, [13] [14] [15] from which the dish gets its name. [14] [15] Valencian speakers use the word paella for all pans, including the traditional shallow pan used for cooking the homonym dish. [15] The pan is made of polished or coated steel with two side handles. [16]
The name of an individual work within the series name: the Star Wars franchise, named for the Star Wars film; the Three Colours trilogy, named for films with the prefix Three Colours. Do not capitalize or italicize descriptive terms that are not part of an official series title (as with "franchise" and "trilogy" in those two examples).
6. Tlayudas. Origin: Mexico Likened to a Mexican pizza, tlayudas are made with a thin, crispy corn tortillas the size of a dinner plate. They're griddled and topped with layers of refried beans ...
The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (North 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 ...