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Using all-lowercase letters may likewise be acceptable if it is done universally by sources, such as with the webcomic xkcd. (See also WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Acronyms.) Do not use the ™ and ® symbols, or similar, in either article text or citations, unless unavoidably necessary for context. use: LittleBigPlanet, Realtor
Avoid using ALL CAPS and small caps for emphasis (for legitimate uses, see WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters § All caps). Italics are usually more appropriate. Double emphasis, such as italics and boldface, "italics in quotation marks", or italics and an exclamation point!, is unnecessary.
Template talk:Infobox UK place#All-caps – Should the template give post_town parameter in all-caps (e.g. "LONDON")? Result: avoid all-caps in WP. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Capitalization of "the Strait", "the Bay", etc. – Result: Lowercase except when part of a name. Talk:MF Doom#Alteration in opening paragraph.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).
Colin Wheildon stated that there is an "apparent consensus" that lower-case text is more legible, but that some editors continue to use all caps in text regardless. In his studies of all caps in headlines, he states that, "Editors who favor capitals claim that they give greater emphasis. Those who prefer lower case claim their preferences gives ...
Blueboar 13:14, 19 August 2015 (UTC) Explicitly allow both styles for prepositions with five letters or more (or at least don't explicitly ban either). General English allows both, so we should give the editors some freedom. Darkfrog24 14:06, 19 August 2015 (UTC) The preposition like is a good example, because almost everyone capitalizes it ...
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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.