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Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...
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
With regard to words that shouldn't be italicized (CMS lists the examples of croissant, banh mi, pasha, Weltanschauung, [2] kaiser, obscure, recherché, bourgeoisie, telenovela, anime, eros, agape, and mise en scène), they all follow this criterion well. However, some words that should be italicized also fit this criterion.
Online magazines, newspapers, and news sites with original content should generally be italicized (Salon or HuffPost). Online non-user-generated encyclopedias and dictionaries should also be italicized (Scholarpedia or Merriam-Webster Online). Other types of websites should be decided on a case-by-case basis. [b]
How should they be formatted? The discussion at Italics for English words is stuck with one view being that MOS restricts italics to foreign words, while another favors italics per words-as-words and consistency. Thoughts needed. Johnuniq 07:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC) Hint: "MOS restricts italics to foreign words" is obviously nonsense.
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. Expand an abbreviation (not already used in the content before the quotation) as a square-bracketed change, or explain it using {{ abbr }} .
@Trappist the monk and Thinker78: Only the three of us have chimed in on this, but all three of us think we should at least consider changing this guideline from "do not italicize words that appear unitalicized in multiple major English dictionaries" to "do not italicize words that appear in multiple major English dictionaries" (i.e. that ...
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)