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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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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.

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Ligatures should be used in languages in which they are standard (hence Moreau's last words were clin d'œil is preferable to Moreau's last words were clin d'oeil) but not in English (encyclopedia or encyclopaedia, not encyclopædia), except in proper names (Æthelstan, not Aethelstan).

  5. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "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." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...

  6. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (definite or indefinite ...

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    For example, The Old Man and the Sea includes the article "The" because sentences such as "Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in 1951" are written with a capitalized "The". On the contrary, United States does not include the article "The", because sentences such as " California is part of the United States" are written with a ...

  7. Capitalization of Internet - Wikipedia

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    Words for new technologies, such as phonograph in the 19th century, are sometimes capitalized at first, later becoming uncapitalized. [13] In 1999, another column said that Internet might, like some other commonly used proper nouns, lose its capital letter. [14] Capitalization of the word as an adjective (specifically, a noun adjunct) also ...

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    The first word in a compound preposition (e.g., Time Out of Mind) Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are: Indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the) Short coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor ; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)

  9. Wikipedia talk : Naming conventions (capitalization)

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    Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League/Archive 22#Capitalization of "Week" in "Week #" in Articles – Should the word "week" preceding the week number be capitalized? Result: Archived without a very clear outcome; Capitalization of short prepositions followed by an ellipsis at the end of a title: