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"When a title is used to refer to a specific and obvious person as a substitute for their name," could be paraphrased. To be capitalised, the shortened name or title must be part of the full name or title and the full name or title must be a proper noun. Using articles 'a' or 'an' apply to a generic use of the noun and the noun is not capitalised.
A capitonym is a form of homograph and – when the two forms are pronounced differently – is also a form of heteronym. In situations where both words should be capitalized (such as the beginning of a sentence), there will be nothing to distinguish between them except the context in which they are used.
Code {{SI unit lowercase|Blaise Pascal|pascal|Pa}} Produces. The pascal is named after Blaise Pascal.As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Pa), but when written in full, it follows the rules for capitalisation of a common noun; i.e., pascal becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case.
A proper name in philosophy is an expression (whether spoken, written, or otherwise encoded) whose specialized role is to denote some unique imaginary or real entity (a thing, a person, a place, an abstraction, or whatever). In this it does not differ materially from the concept of proper name as discussed in linguistic theory; but compared to ...
An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation). [1] Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". [2] The word "euonym" (eu-+ -onym), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named". [3]
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 ...
As (vaguely) mentioned above, I'd say that the second letter should be capitalised if part of the proper name, which I would say to be the case if: the first part of the word is an adjective (Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Black Sea), or; if the descriptive part is commonly used with the name, such as in River Thames and Colorado River
This is the same issue with words-that-are-also-titles and the distinction between "President of the United States", "President Barack Obama" and "Barack Obama was a president". We should use the same guidance there. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Titles of people. --Jayron 32 14:24, 29 January 2018 (UTC) Jayron, I agree.