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| === When not to use italics === | | === When not to use italics === |
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| {{Merge portions to |section=y|existing=y |Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Italics |reason=We badly need to consolidate the scattered titles-related advice, and have a whole page for it. Only cross-reference and a summary of title-related material need be left here. |date=August 2016 |discuss=Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Composition titles advice consolidation}}
| | Italics are generally [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Titles#Italics|used only for titles of longer works]]. Titles of shorter works should be enclosed in double [[Wikipedia:Quotation mark|quotation marks]] ("text like this"). This particularly applies to works that exist as a smaller part of a larger work. These include but are not limited to: Articles, papers, chapters, departments, episodes of audio-visual series, segments or skits in longer programs, short stories, story lines and plot arcs; songs, album tracks and other short musical works. ''(See {{section link|UniWiki:Manual of Style/Titles|Quotation marks}} for details.)'' |
| Italics are generally [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Italics|used only for titles of longer works]]. Titles of shorter works should be enclosed in double [[quotation mark]]s ("text like this"). This particularly applies to works that exist as a smaller part of a larger work. These include but are not limited to: Articles, essays, papers, chapters, reference work entries, newspaper and magazine sections or departments, episodes of audio-visual series, segments or skits in longer programs, short poems, short stories, story lines and plot arcs; songs, album tracks and other short musical works; leaflets and circulars. {{crossref|(See {{section link|WP:Manual of Style/Titles|Quotation marks}} for details.)}} | |
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| * [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms|Foreign-language text]] in non-Latin scripts, such as [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/China-related articles#Characters|Chinese characters]], and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Russia-related articles#Cyrillic, Latin transliteration, and italicization|Cyrillic script]]. | | * [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms|Foreign-language text]] in non-Latin scripts, [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Russia-related articles#Cyrillic, Latin transliteration, and italicization|Cyrillic script]]. |
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| == How not to apply emphasis == | | == How not to apply emphasis == |
