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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.
Standardized breeds should generally retain the capitalization used in the breed standards. [ m ] Examples: German Shepherd , Russian White goat , Berlin Short-faced Tumbler . As with plant cultivars, this applies whether or not the included noun is a proper name, in contrast to how vernacular names of species are written.
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 ...
The lead para currently states: "For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper noun that would always occur capitalized, even in the middle of a sentence."
No, we don't need to re-re-re-argue about what "proper name" means for Wikipedia article title purposes; we already know from 1,000 prior threads like this that "is a name" and "is important to me" and "is sometimes capitalized by people who care about it a lot" and "was always capitalized in my great-grandfather's day" and "is capitalized by ...
According to the Pew Research Center, the middle class has steadily contracted in the past five decades, with the share of adults who live in middle-class households falling to 50% in 2021, from ...
A “middle-class lifestyle” is out of reach for many Americans, as many middle-income households live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford a house or a summer vacation.
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.