Talk:First periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries

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Requested move 2 October 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved to sentence case version. (non-admin closure) Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:28, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

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• First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries → First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament boundaries
• Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries → Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament boundaries

– to match 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies; by WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS, "boundaries" should be a common noun that should be lowercase; the Scottish Parliament has "constituencies" and "electoral regions" so boundaries; matching the title otherwise ([1]) would still be ideal DotCoder (talk) 20:52, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose: Looking at the documents, it appears that the Boundary Commission for Scotland named the review the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries. The people who ran the boundary commissions in the UK may have named their reviews differently. Is there a need for them to be consistent? SchreiberBike | ⌨  22:50, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
• Title case or sentence case (pick one; sentence case suggested): This is either the proper name of a specific published work (which it is not, since the corresponding document name begins with "Report of" or "Report on") or government program (and thus should use title case with capitalised 'Boundaries' and capitalised 'Constituencies') or it is a verbal description of an activity (and thus should use sentence case with lowercase 'periodic' and 'review' as well as 'boundaries' and 'constituencies'). There are 12 titles total with "Periodic Review of" in their Wikipedia article titles. Google Ngrams for "periodic review of" shows mostly lowercase. If you add "Scottish" or "Westminster" to the end of "periodic review of", it doesn't find anything. The first topic is in title case on a government website here, but there is a very official government website using sentence case to provide the report on the same topic here (using "Report of" on the website and "Report on" inside the document, and title case for the headline inside the document, and says "This concludes the report on our First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament boundaries" inside the body of the document, section 6.2.1 on page 25). The second topic name doesn't include "Periodic" on the government website here. The naming doesn't really look consistent; many of the 12 topics don't use an exact phrasing or consistent capitalisation – even on the government websites. In such an instance, perhaps sentence case is the better choice. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 08:55, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
• Sentence case instead per BarrelProof. The phrase "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries" appears only in the title of the Report of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries, as far as I can find. It is fundamentally descriptive, so First periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries would be more aligned with our guidelines. Or First review of Scottish Parliament boundaries, since "periodic" is often not present. Similarly 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies or 2023 review of Westminster constituencies for consistency. Dicklyon (talk) 22:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
• Sentence case instead per BarrelProof. This search shows that government (which we would expect to uppercase lots of things not uppercased elsewhere) is inconsistent in its capitalisation and where it is being written in title case it is often referring to it as the title of the work and not the activity. Cinderella157 (talk) 09:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

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