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It particularly applies to works that exist as a smaller part of a larger work. Examples of titles which are quoted but not italicized: Articles, essays, papers, or conference presentation notes (stand-alone or in a collected larger work): "The Dos and Don'ts of Dating Online" is an article by Phil McGraw on his advice site.
Do not put quotations in italics. Quotation marks (or block quoting) alone are sufficient and the correct ways to denote quotations. Italics should only be used if the quoted material would otherwise call for italics. Use italics within quotations to reproduce emphasis that exists in the source material or to indicate the use of non-English words.
For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {} template), for an organism's scientific name, and to indicate a words-as-words usage.
Many direct quotations can be minimized in length by providing an appropriate context in the surrounding text. A summary or paraphrase of a quotation is often better where the original wording could be improved. Consider minimizing the length of a quotation by paraphrasing, by working small portions of the quotation into the article text, or both.
An article on that person may not be closely related to one part of the English-speaking world. Other examples of where an article is closely related to one part of the English-speaking world include: American Civil War, a solely American event (USA) The Lord of the Rings, a book by a British writer (UK) Uluru, an Australian landmark (Australia)
Grandpa was in World War II, not "World War II". As for the italicized case, we don't use quotation marks and italics at the same time; "failing" to also use quotation marks with the (incorrectly) italicized #4 examples doesn't create any ambiguity, and adding them doesn't make the example any clearer, just twice as wrong.
Looking through MoS-T, I see that ship names are italicized, but there is nothing mentioned about a ship's class. In practice, it appears that a substantial fraction of ship articles have the class name italicized (example HMS Foo, a Bar-class rowboat). There are many examples in naval articles: . Unless group consensus disagrees, I will add ...
The short version is, use either, which ever makes most sense in the article (e.g. use quotes for an article with a lot of italics, e.g. loads of foreign phrases or album titles, use italics for an article with lots of quoted material), just be consistent in the article. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 05:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)