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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.
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 ...
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.
Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, and any other well-recognized citation system. Parameters in the citation templates should be accurate.
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.
As to potential for confusion, sure, that's a point for editors to take into account when writing the article, to be weighed against whatever advantage they think there is in using a shortened proper name. There may not even be a lot of situations where shortened proper names make sense. But if you do use one, you should obviously capitalize it.
It is visually confusing to start a sentence with a lowercase letter. There are some things that can't be capitalized, ever (say the mathematical constant e), and these articles legitimately get {}, because if you did start a sentence with them, you would still lowercase them. But in these cases, we generally try to avoid starting a sentence ...