Wikipedia:Naming conventions (theorems)

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The convention is that theorem appears with lower case, so that it's

. This is for the page title; a redirect can of course be created for the upper case form(s).

This convention can be seen as universally adopted on list of theorems. It may not be universally accepted outside Wikipedia. The discussion on the talk page for this meta-page wasn't exactly conclusive; but as a de facto matter it is now (2004) standard on WP.

The same cannot be said for the

.

Possible grey areas include Fermat's Last Theorem, Zariski's main theorem where in the first case 'last' qualifies the Theorem (it was the last of Fermat's claimed results to be proved); and in the second case, by contrast, 'main' does refer to Zariski's work.