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In a list, if each item of the list is a complete sentence, then it should be capitalized like any other sentence. If the list items are sentence fragments, then capitalization should be consistent – sentence case should be applied to either all or none of the items. See WP:Manual of Style § Bulleted and numbered lists.
Manual of Style (MoS) This is a style guide for military history articles. It is intended to provide editors working on such articles with recommendations in relation to article naming conventions, formatting and presentation, template use, and categories.
A caption is text that appears below an image. [a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article ...
Use boldface in the remainder of the article only in a few special cases: After following a redirect: Terms which redirect to an article or section are commonly bolded when they appear in the first couple of paragraphs of the lead section, or at the beginning of another section (for example, subtopics treated in their own sections or alternative names for the main topic – see § Article ...
The simplest de-capitalization rule is to capitalize if, and only if, the title is directly used as a title in front of a name, so "President Nixon" but everywhere else "president". Such a rule could actually be followed. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC) Thank you for replying here, Peter coxhead.
Different rules exist also concerning the question whether the first letter after a colon should be capitalized. The following guidelines form a compromise between the various conventions in use. Do not use a capital letter after a colon. An exception to 1 may be made if the colon could be replaced by a full stop.
Following increasingly common practice, we shouldn't capitalize the more everyday job titles at all ("MacGoopleSoft's managing director Chris Zheng"), only a) those of high office, when used singularly and directly juxtaposed with the name (before or after), and b) those that are conventionally used as name-parts in English, when actually used ...
It is a simple of matter of fact that people do capitalize titles when they stand in the place of names, just as other people do not. People do capitalize every instance of a title, just as other people put nearly everyone in lower case. This a question of style. As such, it should reflect best practices and actual usage.