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Requested move 20 February 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved ( non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs ( talk) 23:01, 27 February 2020 (UTC) reply



– Compliance with policy Wikipedia:Article titles, specifically WP:CONSISTENT; and the guidelines contained within Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography, specifically MOS:JOBTITLES. Numerous lists exists concerning British prime ministers, and currently there is inconsistency with capitalisation. Most article titles in the scope are decapitalised.

Per MOS:JOBTITLES, the capitalised PM article titles should be decapitalised, because they denote an office, as opposed to a title. Editing with Eric ( talk) 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC) reply

That is definitely an issue with current article titles, often it is addressed in article leads that it was Great Britain before 1801 but it's nonetheless problematic. I think a change like that would see a couple obstacles however,
I actually agree that some of these article titles could be improved, but that would probably be outside the scope of a simple capitalisation move here. Editing with Eric ( talk) 10:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Requested move 20 February 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved ( non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs ( talk) 23:01, 27 February 2020 (UTC) reply



– Compliance with policy Wikipedia:Article titles, specifically WP:CONSISTENT; and the guidelines contained within Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography, specifically MOS:JOBTITLES. Numerous lists exists concerning British prime ministers, and currently there is inconsistency with capitalisation. Most article titles in the scope are decapitalised.

Per MOS:JOBTITLES, the capitalised PM article titles should be decapitalised, because they denote an office, as opposed to a title. Editing with Eric ( talk) 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC) reply

That is definitely an issue with current article titles, often it is addressed in article leads that it was Great Britain before 1801 but it's nonetheless problematic. I think a change like that would see a couple obstacles however,
I actually agree that some of these article titles could be improved, but that would probably be outside the scope of a simple capitalisation move here. Editing with Eric ( talk) 10:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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