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Use italics for phrases in other languages and for isolated foreign words that are not current in English. See {{section link|WP:Manual of Style/Text formatting|Foreign terms}} for details.

[[Loanword]]s and borrowed phrases that have common usage in English—{{xt|Gestapo}}, {{xt|samurai}}, {{xt|vice versa}}—do not require italics. A rule of thumb is not to italicize words that appear unitalicized in general-purpose English-language dictionaries.

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{{see also|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)|Wikipedia:Romanization|:Category:Romanization}}

Names not originally written in one of the [[Latin-script alphabets]] (written for example in Greek, Cyrillic, or Chinese scripts) must be given a [[Romanization|romanized]] form for use in English. Use a systematically [[Transliteration|transliterated]] or otherwise romanized name ({{xt|Aleksandr Tymoczko}}, {{xt|Wang Yanhong}}); but if there is a common English form of the name ({{xt|Tchaikovsky}}, {{xt|Chiang Kai-shek}}), use that form instead.

The use of [[diacritic]]s (such as accent marks) for foreign words is neither encouraged nor discouraged; their usage depends on whether they appear in [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiable reliable sources]] in English and on the constraints imposed by specialized Wikipedia guidelines {{crossref|(see also {{Section link|WP:Manual of Style/Proper names|Diacritics}})}}. Provide [[Wikipedia:Redirect#Alternative names and languages|redirects]] from alternative forms that use or exclude diacritics.

Spell a name consistently in the title and the text of an article. See relevant policy at [[WP:Article titles]]; see also [[WP:Naming conventions (use English)]]. For foreign names, phrases, and words generally, adopt the spellings most commonly used in English-language references for the article, unless those spellings are idiosyncratic or obsolete. If a foreign term does not appear in the article's references, adopt the spelling most commonly used in other [[WP:Verifiability#Reliable sources|verifiable reliable sources]] (for example [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Widely accepted name|other English-language dictionaries and encyclopedias]]). For punctuation of compounded forms, see relevant guidelines in {{section link||Punctuation}}, above.