Gerard Meijssen wrote:
However, your arguments deal with circumstances where a word might be written in a capitalised manner. When you look for the word in a dictionary it is not capitalised. The point is we use the name of the language as it is written and the word on its own is italiano.
But now we were discussing whether the language names should be capitalized in the interwiki link list. There, they are not "on their own", but "members of a list". And apparantly, both the French and Italian Wikipedia capitalize list members. Exactly the same rules apply to the Scandinavian languages.
Another question is whether headwords (titles) in Wikipedia articles should always be capitalized, as they are now. This is not the case in dictionaries, and not in some encyclopedias. For example, in the Danish (1915) http://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/1/0927.html "apostoliske Fædre" is not capitalized, but in the Swedish (1904) http://runeberg.org/nfba/0681.html "Apostoliska fäder" is capitalized.