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"Template:Italics" redirects here. For formatting text in italics, see MOS:Text formatting § Italic type.

Template:Italic title italicizes page titles. Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects:

• Titles with no parentheses () are fully italicized:
  • Foo → Foo
  • Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo
• Titles which contain parentheses are italicized before the first opening parenthesis:
  • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
  • Talk:Foo (bar) → Talk:Foo (bar)
• Italicization can be forced on parenthesized text with the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|all=yes parameter.

This template should only be used in articles that meet the criteria for italic titles given in the Article titles policy.

Meta templates which use this template should place {{Auto italic title}} in their documentation.

Location on page

If the page has a {{Short description}} template, this template should go immediately underneath it, normally as the second item on the page. If there is no {{Short description}} template, add this template at the very top of the page, above everything else. There ought to be no blank line after {{Italic title}} because that will cause an extra blank line in the page's rendered appearance.

Usage

Basic usage

{{Italic title}}

All parameters

{{Italic title|noerror|string=text in title|all=yes}}

Wrapper

Most calls to this template are of the form {{italic title|string=<foo>}}. The wrapper template {{ititle}} provides a shorthand for this case:

{{ititle|<foo>}}

Parameters

• <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|1=: if this is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|1=noerror, error messages are suppressed. See #Errors for more details.
• <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|all=: if this is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|all=yes, the entire title is italicized, including any parentheses and text therein.
• <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string=: instead of italicizing the whole title, italicize only some specific text. For example, using <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string=Ally McBeal on the page "List of Ally McBeal episodes" results in "List of Ally McBeal episodes".

If <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|all=yes and <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= are both used when text inside the disambiguator needs to be italicized.

In cases not covered by the parameters, titles needing both a lowercased first character and either this template without parameters or only <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|all=yes should instead use {{Lowercase title}}, which has parameters covering those two cases, as shown in the second table below; other non-standard cases, such as lowercased titles needing this template with <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= set, titles with multiple italicized substrings, or titles needing italicization combined with other modifications not pertaining to case or italicization should use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} directly.

Note that specifying a value for <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= italicizes all instances of that text in the title if there are multiple in the targeted portion of the title, meaning that titles where repeated text should be italicized some places in that portion but not others require direct usage of {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, while titles needing all instances of such repeated text italicized can use this template normally.

Errors

Sometimes you may see red error messages like this at the top of the page:

This usually means that there is another instance of {{Italic title}} on the page, usually added by one of the infoboxes. Certain infoboxes, such as {{Infobox album}}, add {{Italic title}} by default. Check the template documentation for any infobox used on the page; it may have instructions about how to deal with italic titles. You may be able to adjust the italics from the infobox instead of using {{Italic title}} at the top of the article. Or if that does not work, you may be able to disable the infobox's italics code altogether.

If you are still having problems, try putting {{Italic title}} after the infobox. You can suppress the error message by using the code {{Italic title|noerror}}.

Technical details: this template uses the DISPLAYTITLE magic word to italicize the title. Error messages can be produced by any two templates which use this magic word, and are not limited to this template. If you are unsure why you are getting a particular error message, you can ask about it at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical).

Tracking categories

If the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= parameter is used but that string is not found in the title, the page is added to Category:Pages using italic title with no matching string.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Italic title in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Italic title

<templatedata> { "description": "A template to italicize article titles", "params": { "1": { "label": "Error options", "description": "If set to \"noerror\", suppresses error messages. Using this is a last-ditch fix - see the template documentation for other options.", "type": "string" }, "all": { "label": "All", "description": "If set to \"yes\", italicization is forced on parenthesized text.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "string": { "label": "String", "description": "Specify a string in the title to italicize, rather than italicizing the entire title.", "type": "string", "required": false } } } </templatedata>

See also

• WP:ITALICTITLE
• {{Italic disambiguation}}
• {{Italic title prefixed}}
• {{Italics correction}}
• {{Title language}}

Title changing or correcting templates + magic word

Wiki markup Transclusion from template:	Involves	Correct name	Actual article name
{{Italic title}}	Title in italics	Odyssey	Odyssey
{{Italic title|all=yes}}	Complete title in italics, including parentheses	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
{{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}}	Phrase of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= in italics	List of Ally McBeal episodes	List of Ally McBeal episodes
{{Italic title|all=yes|string=Time}}	Phrase of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|string= in italics; also looks in parentheses	You (Time Person of the Year)	You (Time Person of the Year)
{{Italic disambiguation}}	Disambiguation in italics	Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)	Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)
{{Lowercase title}}	Lowercase first character	eBay	EBay
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation	iCarly (soundtrack)	ICarly (soundtrack)
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation	i 2 (EYE)	I 2 (EYE)
{{Lowercase title|dab=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics	iSpy (Modern Family)	ISpy (Modern Family)
{{Italic title prefixed|10}}	Italicize after the number of characters at the beginning of the title, not including disambiguation	Battlestar Galactica (fictional spacecraft)	Battlestar Galactica (fictional spacecraft)
{{Italic title prefixed|11|force=yes}}	Italicize after the number of characters at the beginning of the title, including disambiguation	Bill C-27: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct)	Bill C-27: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct)
{{Title language|la}}	Indicates that the title is in the foreign language specified by the parameter and sets the text to italics. Preferable to {{Italic title}} for foreign titles per MOS:FOREIGNITALICS	Ad hominem	Ad hominem
{{Title language|de|italic=no}}	Indicates that the title is in the foreign language specified by the parameter but disables italics	Schottenstift	Schottenstift
Magic word
{{DISPLAYTITLE:_NSAKEY}}	Various	_NSAKEY	NSAKEY
Title corrections
{{Correct title}}	Various	<|°_°|>	Robot Face
{{Correct title|reason=bracket}}	< > [ ] { }	Benzo[a]pyrene	Benzo(a)pyrene
{{Correct title|reason=#}}	#	Pilot #5	Pilot No. 5
{{Correct title|reason=vbar}}	|	C|T Group	C/T Group
{{Correct title|reason=:}}	:	DK: King of Swing	DK King of Swing
{{Correct title|reason=.}}	.	.	Period (album)
{{Correct title|reason=length}}	Title exceeding 256 bytes	The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.	The Boy Bands Have Won

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