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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.
Picture captions should not end in a full stop (a period) unless they are complete sentences. Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence.
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 ...
Sources are inconsistent and generally un-capitalize "universe", therefore we should not unnecessarily capitalize "universe" (or "solar system", per alternative #3). Further, I support the de-capitalizing of those articles affected by the prior misinterpreation of the MoS and would volunteer to help if there are many hundreds of such pages.
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's still consensus that content after a colon in a heading should not be capitalized. The current guidance, in my opinion, seems counter to many peoples' intuition– I believe this may be because a colon is usually used after a date, so the secondary title includes the first capitalizable text.
I for one would object. I don't think capitalization should depend on the variant of English used in an article. Compare the style of quotation marks used: though British English prefers 'half/simple' ones, we use "double ones" throughout. That's not an ENGVAR issue, and neither should capitalization be.
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.