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Usage
Simply add the wikitext markup {{Lowercase title}} at the beginning of a page (and optionally, at the beginning of its talk page). The markup will only decapitalize the first letter of the page's name in the title at the beginning of the page by default.
Some examples (in different namespaces):
| Page name | Will display |
|---|---|
| EBay | eBay |
| Talk:EBay | Talk:eBay |
| Category:MacOS | Category:macOS |
| Template:IPhone models | Template:iPhone models |
Issues
The template cannot be directly combined with other title modification templates, including {{Italic title}}, {{Italic disambiguation}}, and {{Italic title prefixed}}; if more than one of these is placed on a page, only the last is applied, and a DISPLAYTITLE error message is generated. Some of these combined stylizations (a lowercased title combined with an italicized title, disambiguation, or both) can be enacted using this template's parameters, as shown in the second table below, while others (a lowercase title with a delayed or otherwise non-standard italicized substring or other modifications not pertaining to case or italicization) require the use of {{DISPLAYTITLE}} directly.
When using the template on redirect pages, the template must be placed after the redirect, as it will break the redirection if placed before it. This, however, limits the template to have an effect only when viewing the redirect page directly. Nevertheless, it is still useful in this scenario to document the proper capitalization of a term.
When using the template on other templates, make sure to wrap it with <noinclude> tags to prevent it from affecting pages that the other templates are transcluded onto.
Technical
This template wraps the magic word DISPLAYTITLE so that it works automatically in any namespace (main/article, talk, template, category, etc.) to decapitalise the first letter of the name of a page it is transcluded on.
/* Page using a lowercase title, with or without {{lowercase}} */
SELECT page_title, pp_value AS displaytitle
FROM page
JOIN page_props ON pp_page=page_id AND pp_propname="displaytitle"
WHERE page_namespace=0
AND CONVERT(pp_value USING utf8mb4) COLLATE utf8mb4_bin /* &#greek; */
REGEXP "^([_ :]+|<[^<>]+>)*([[:lower:]]|	[4-6][0-9];)"
TemplateData
TemplateData for Lowercase title
This template is used to make the first letter of the page title lowercase. It will not affect the page URL, just the displayed name.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italic | italic | If this is specified with any value, italicize the title, except for any part in parentheses. | String | optional |
| Fully italic | force | If this AND "italic" have a value specified, then the whole title will be italic, including any parentheses. | String | optional |
| Italicize disambiguation | dab | If this is specified with any value, italicize the part in parentheses. | String | optional |
See also
| 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 |string= in italics |
List of Ally McBeal episodes | List of Ally McBeal episodes |
| {{Italic title|all=yes|string=Time}} | Phrase of |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 (Kesha 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 |