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This template can be used to italicise page titles. It is realized using the magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE}}.

An RfC in June 2009 determined that there was consensus to italicize species and genera that use binomial nomenclature for page titles, as well as certain mathematical symbols. There was no consensus that book, movie, or other media titles should be italicized.

Usage

• {{italic title}} italicises the title automatically under certain circumstances. If the title is less than 50 characters in length, italicisation is always performed automatically:
  • Titles with no brackets () are fully italicised:
    • Foo → Foo
    • Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo
  • Titles which contain brackets are italicised before the first open bracket:
    • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
    • Talk:Foo (bar) → Talk:Foo (bar)
• Titles longer than 50 characters are not automatically italicised. However, you can pass parameters for the template to test the title against: if a match is found, italicisation is performed:
  • {{italic title| name | bracket1 | bracket2 | ... }}, where "name" is the first part of the title (before any brackets) and the "bracket#" are a list of up to five possible brackets: {{italic title| Foo | bar | baz }} will italicise as follows:
    • Foo → Foo
    • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
    • Foo (baz) → Foo (baz)
    • Foo (quok) → Foo (quok)

See also

• {{lowercase}}
• {{wrongtitle}}