Talk:Rural community council

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:40, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

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Rural Community Council → Rural community council – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Per WP:CAPS and WP:TITLE: although a specific historical referece, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Matches the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 04:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose. Usage in reliable sources is mixed. I think it can go either way, so I oppose per WP:TITLECHANGES. --Born2cycle (talk) 22:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
  • If it "can go either way" out there, we go with downcasing. WP:CAPS says, quite clearly, "Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization". And please note that it opens by talking of rural community councils in the plural. It cannot possibly be titular. Tony (talk) 03:03, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

• Support. This is first of all a style matter, determined for Wikipedia articles by Wikipedia's own style guidelines. That's what they're for! Every publisher decides on such matters of style for itself, and does not make itself hostage to "reliable sources" in doing so. That said, the "reliable sources" differ anyway, as B2C points out above. The fundamental principle that Tony quotes from the very start of WP:MOSCAPS kicks in: the capitalisation cannot be necessary, so it is not to be applied in this case, to what is pretty obviously a generic term in its primary uses. The article shows that. Noetica^Tea? 07:34, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

• Support per MOS as described by Tony and Noetica above. Even the lead phrase "The Rural Community Councils..." suggests that it's a generic, not a proper name of a unique entity. Dicklyon (talk) 13:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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. No further edits should be made to this section.