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FTR, my source for the “Emergency Powers (Defence), Food (Wine and Spirits) Order 1942 S.R. & O. 1942/1271” is the preamble of an auction catalogue of Messrs Christie, Manson & Woods on 16 June 1943. This quotes that order at some length. A similar preamble is present in other auctions of that era. (My pictures 22910-22915.) JDAWiseman ( talk) 21:31, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky ( talk) 16:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
– For all the reasons outlined in Talk:List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (namely WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS). "Statutory" is a simple adjective and "rules", "orders", and "instruments" are all common nouns with no compelling reason to be capitalized. Pending consensus being reached, all child articles (e.g. List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly, 1999) would eventually follow suit as well. Woko Sapien ( talk) 15:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
The central point is that Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources, so your blanket citation makes these seem like hard and fast rules, which they are clearly not. However, as we are discussing a legal topic WP:LAWMOS IS clear. YorkshireExpat ( talk) 11:24, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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FTR, my source for the “Emergency Powers (Defence), Food (Wine and Spirits) Order 1942 S.R. & O. 1942/1271” is the preamble of an auction catalogue of Messrs Christie, Manson & Woods on 16 June 1943. This quotes that order at some length. A similar preamble is present in other auctions of that era. (My pictures 22910-22915.) JDAWiseman ( talk) 21:31, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky ( talk) 16:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
– For all the reasons outlined in Talk:List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (namely WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS). "Statutory" is a simple adjective and "rules", "orders", and "instruments" are all common nouns with no compelling reason to be capitalized. Pending consensus being reached, all child articles (e.g. List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly, 1999) would eventually follow suit as well. Woko Sapien ( talk) 15:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
The central point is that Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources, so your blanket citation makes these seem like hard and fast rules, which they are clearly not. However, as we are discussing a legal topic WP:LAWMOS IS clear. YorkshireExpat ( talk) 11:24, 18 November 2023 (UTC)