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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.
An ambiguous state name is OK when clear from context or previous disambiguation e.g. "Washington" the article Washington (state). New York State is acceptable, but for other states, use the short name or "State of" or "Commonwealth of" to name the state or its government, always capitalized if matching the formal name.
Such scientific terms have their own rules about capitalization which take precedence over the standard initial capitalization rule. For example, pH would be liable to cause confusion if written PH , and initial m and M may even have different meanings, milli and mega , for example 2 MA (megamperes) is a billion times 2 mA (milliamperes).
APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...
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.
Capitalize the initial letter (except in rare cases, such as eBay), but otherwise follow sentence case [e] (Funding of UNESCO projects), not title case (Funding of UNESCO Projects), except where title case would be used in ordinary prose. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). To italicize, add {{italic title}} near the top of the ...
President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts.
The rules for sentences and sentence-case titles are different. Both APA and Chicago Manual of Style support capitalizing a subheading (text after a colon) using sentence case. For titles, APA says "Capitalize the first word of the title/heading and of any subtitle/subheading". [2]