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  2. 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 ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.

  6. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes)

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    Follow the naming conventions used in quality, well-sourced articles, and in the sources produced by the people, tribe, band, or nation in question. For instance: Use the proper name of the tribal government, e.g. Seminole Tribe of Florida, Cowichan Tribes, or Spirit Lake Tribe. As proper names, titles should be capitalized.

  7. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)

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    It is generally advisable to use the most common form of the name used in reliable sources in English ("common name" in the case of royalty and nobility may also include a person's title), but there are other things which should be considered: ease of use, precision, concision, and consistency among article titles; and a system constraint: we ...

  8. Trump has an unusual habit of capitalizing random words in ...

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    President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts. The president has been criticized for his unconventional way of capitalizing ...

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

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    I'm always a bit confused by the "proper names" argument: there are plenty of proper names in English that are rendered in lowercase, unless the only qualification for a name being proper is that it's capitalized, which is adorably circular. Remsense 诉 00:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC) Well honestly it needs to be sorted out for scales like this.