Talk:Rococo Revival
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Requested move 21 September 2024
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Rococo Revival → Rococo revival – Per MOS:CAPS, the Wikipedia guidelines specify that we should render something as a proper name only if it is "consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources". However, looking at a pair of ngrams for this, one comparing the capitalised form of the bare name against other common capitalisations - [1] and the other including the word "was" afterwards, to eliminate false positives from titles and suchlike - [2] - we can see that while 20 or 30 years ago the title-case version was very dominant, in recent times it has dwindled to almost neck-and-neck. Thus the stipulation above is no longer met, and we should render this in sentence case. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 12:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
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- Support – Here's another n-gram view showing only a modest tendency to capping. Per Amakuru and guidelines, we should not be using unnecessary capitalization here. Dicklyon (talk) 14:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per WP:CONSISTENT: "
To the extent that it is practical, titles should be consistent among articles covering similar topics.
" All but one of the 23 articles in Category:Revival architectural styles on styles with "Revival" in their names capitalise the initial letter of that word; the sole exception is Russian neoclassical revival. Ham II (talk) 19:31, 22 September 2024 (UTC) - Strong Oppose per Ham II's consistency analysis as well as these better n-grams, which show uppercase really taking off in 1977 and only returning to Earth because the mass media may not be writing about the topic anymore (in any upper or lowercase). Randy Kryn (talk) 03:35, 23 September 2024 (UTC)