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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.
Title case or headline case is a style of capitalization used for rendering the titles of published works or works of art in English.When using title case, all words are capitalized, except for minor words (typically articles, short prepositions, and some conjunctions) that are not the first or last word of the title.
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.
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
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.
Chicago Manual of Style says, "In headlines or chapter titles or other display type, it’s normal to cap after a colon, even if the title or heading is in sentence case (see CMOS 8.158) and whether or not the part after the colon is a grammatically complete sentence." [3] Examples given by Chicago Manual of Style are as follows: [4]
This includes partial titles; e.g., a newspaper might have an in-house convention for all-caps in the first part of a title and all-lowercase in a subtitle: something like "JOHNSON WINS RUNOFF ELECTION: incumbent leads by at least 18% as polls close" should be rendered on Wikipedia as "Johnson Wins Runoff Election: Incumbent Leads by at Least ...