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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.
Family titles and higher taxa are capitalized, but not italicized. Genera titles are always both italicized and capitalized. The automatic taxobox template will italicize the title by default, so the "Italic title" template isn't necessary. Species titles should be both italicized and capitalized, and include both the genera and species.
The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks. Italics are not used for major religious works (the Bible, the Quran, the Talmud). Many of these titles should also be in title case.
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.
The names of taxa at taxonomic ranks above genus (or the rarely used supergenus) – family, order, etc. – are always capitalized and are not italicized for animals, plants or bacteria (i.e., everything but viruses): bats belong to the order Chiroptera; rats and mice are members of the family Muridae and the order Rodentia; the house mouse ...
Always capitalized: When using title case, the following words should be capitalized: The first and last word of the title (e.g., A Home to Go Back To ) [ f ] Every adjective , adverb , noun , pronoun , and subordinating conjunction ( Me , It , His , If , etc.)
A baronet should never be referred to with the title but without "Sir" preceding (e.g. do not use "William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton"). A baronet's hereditary title, often held for a large part of his life, should be bolded in the first sentence of the article, as in: Sir George Albu, 1st Baronet (26 October 1857 – 27 December 1935 ...
Overview: Titles should be capitalized when attached to an individual's name, or where the position/office is a globally unique title that is the subject itself, and the term is the actual title or conventional translation thereof (not a description or rewording). Titles should not be capitalized when being used generically.