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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. The emphasis is better done with {}.
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).
Emphasis is provided by using italics, used for key words, stage directions and the names of characters, and capitalization of key words. There are many designs. With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by swapping into a different font of the same family; for example by replacing body text in Arial with its bold or ...
Well, in formal writing, you should use italics/underlining, and Wikipedia is formal writing. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops ) 00:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC) [ reply ] Italics are normally used to differentiate between tiles and normal text in a block paragraph.
For example, instead of adding a new section about capital letters, and mentioning scientific names both there and in the section about italics, we should have a section about scientific names where we say that they should be in italics, with the generic name capitalized. Peter Chastain 20:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Italic type (text like this) should be used for certain names and titles, including court case names, named vehicles, and works of art and artifice. Use '' to open and close italic text. Markup
For mathematical formulas (often using Greek, much less frequently Cyrillic) we should use standard mathematical formatting, which (I imagine for historical reasons) is often upright for Greek capitals as in the in Gamma function but italic/slanted for lowercase as in the in golden ratio. Here, a prohibition against italicization makes even ...