Talk:List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom

Defence … Wine and Spirits

FTR, my source for the “Emergency Powers (Defence), Food (Wine and Spirits) Order 1942 S.R. & O. 1942/1271” is the preamble of an auction catalogue of Messrs Christie, Manson & Woods on 16 June 1943. This quotes that order at some length. A similar preamble is present in other auctions of that era. (My pictures 22910-22915.) JDAWiseman (talk) 21:31, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 17 November 2023

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 16:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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• List of Statutory Rules and Orders of the United Kingdom → List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom
• List of Statutory Rules and Orders of Northern Ireland → List of statutory rules and orders of Northern Ireland
• List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly → List of statutory instruments of the Welsh Assembly
• List of Statutory Instruments of Scotland → List of statutory instruments of Scotland
• List of Statutory Instruments of Australia → List of statutory instruments of Australia

– For all the reasons outlined in Talk:List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (namely WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS). "Statutory" is a simple adjective and "rules", "orders", and "instruments" are all common nouns with no compelling reason to be capitalized. Pending consensus being reached, all child articles (e.g. List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly, 1999) would eventually follow suit as well. Woko Sapien (talk) 15:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

• Note: these parent articles—List of statutory instruments of the United Kingdom and List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland—were already moved before this request was made. Reaching a consensus here would help bring more consistency to Wikipedia. --Woko Sapien (talk) 22:28, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
• Comment: citing WP:LAWMOS would be better. YorkshireExpat (talk) 21:53, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support - per nom. Primergrey (talk) 00:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Support per nom and for consistency with the parent articles mentioned in the above comment. estar8806 (talk) ★ 03:09, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

• Support Per WP:NCCAPS MOS:CAPS and MOS:SIGNIFCAPS. We use sentence case. The words are not proper nouns. We don't capitalise for emphasis or distinction. Cinderella157 (talk) 08:12, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

  Not capitalising because something is not a proper noun is not the best argument here. WP:MOS states that The central point is that Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources, so your blanket citation makes these seem like hard and fast rules, which they are clearly not. However, as we are discussing a legal topic WP:LAWMOS IS clear. YorkshireExpat (talk) 11:24, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.