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We have editorial conventions that help maintain a consistent style throughout the whole wiki. If you usually edit articles, it may be cool to once in a while discuss ideas in the discussion page and check what has been decided.
Articles
Title
The title of the article should be always be capitalized (the MediaWiki engine already does that), and the rest of the article title should be as lowercase as possible, i.e.,
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
instead of
"Socialism with Chinese Characteristics."
This approach makes reading sometimes easier.
Body
When mentioning the subject of the article in the article body for the first time, use bold. This was adopted from Wikipedia's conventions, i.e.,
Title of the article: Historical materialism.
Body of article: "Historical materialism broadly refers to applying (...)"
Cited works
There will be many cases where it's not always clear when to lowercase and when to uppercase certain expressions. Cited works in other media usually have all their words capitalized, but we use a lowercase approach with italics when citing work titles, i.e.,
Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classical German philosophy
instead of
"Ludwig Feuerbach And The End of Classical German Philosophy"
In this case, the capitalized words are either proper nouns or nationalities, and the italics are used to show this is a cited work. When we cite works written by famous marxists, we put their short name and title of work, i.e.,
Engels: Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classical German philosophy
Fanon: The wretched of the Earth
Marx: Critique of the Gotha program
External sources
Avoid using external sources in the article body! To refer to external sources, link it in a header or as a reference at the bottom of the article, as seen here.