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Further, when referring to members of the UK Royal Marines, they are always referred to as "Royal Marines" and not just "Marines", (or should be) and therefore should be capitalized. I don't see how this would be different for any Marine from any naval service.
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.
The fact that some people I work with like to actually capitalize that way in memos, because they, too, do no understand capitalization in English doesn't mean that the workings of capitalization in English have suddenly changed, it just means they didn't pay attention in English class, and like other specialists when communicating to ...
"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 _____".
While that would be just a common noun, each of these 58 is a United States National Park, capitalized to indicate that these are the official National Parks, not just national parks. For this reason I think parts of the lead should be re-capitalized. Reywas92 Talk 22:57, 18 April 2010 (UTC) I do not follow your reasoning here.
In titles (including subtitles, if any) of English-language works (books, poems, songs, etc.), every word is capitalized except for the definite and indefinite articles, the short coordinating conjunctions, and any short prepositions. This is known as title case. Capitalization of non-English titles varies by language (see below). Wikipedia ...
References ^ A 2017 RfC reached no consensus on the proper capitalization of the Gambia, and usage in reliable sources is mixed. The full official name of the country (Republic of The Gambia) uses the capital The. References ^ United Nations: Member States – Laundry Pizza 03 (d c̄) 15:42, 29 December 2022 (UTC) Except it should clearly be the Gambia, lowercase, because sources are mixed and ...
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.