Talk:Public safety answering point

Latest comment: 6 years ago by TonyBallioni in topic Requested move 11 May 2018

Capitalization and hyphen

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We need to get this straightened out and consistent. Clearly, it has been confusing, since this talk page is Public Safety Answering Point and its article is Public-safety answering point. It's been moved a lot (history), so I think we need consensus before I just go moving things around more.

I did a little research:

  • NENA: case varies (lower- or title-), no hyphen
  • NENA: title case (might just be context), no hyphen
  • FCC: all lower-case, no hyphen
  • FCC: title-case, no hyphen
  • Google: inconclusive—I'm not seeing a lot of hyphens; capitalization varies, but could be because a lot of the snippets are titles anyway.
  • Page history: more justifications and sources for all options.

I suggest we drop the hyphen. Radiojon's “consistency with English language” is less meaningful when this phrase almost always appears (in the English language) without the hyphen.

For capitalization, I'm not sure. I favor lower case, but mostly for aesthetics.

P1h3r1e3d13 (talk) 21:53, 26 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Concur. Whomever moved this to the current title does not understand how to properly use a hyphen. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:11, 12 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Took care of it.--Coolcaesar (talk) 05:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

As per WP:TITLE, this should not be capitalised. It is irrelevant the way other sources write it, it is not a proper noun, but a class of things. Mauls (talk) 14:49, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 11 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: page moved. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:27, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply


Public Safety Answering PointPublic safety answering point – The title should not be capitalised per WP:TITLE Mauls (talk) 14:49, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Agree that it should be moved. It was moved to the current title in January of this year, after being at the non-capped title for eight years. The editor that did that move gave an edit summary of "reverting vandalism to title". Disingenuous at best. Primergrey (talk) 01:32, 12 May 2018 (UTC)Reply


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