Talk:Paddington alcohol test

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 22:33, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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Paddington Alcohol Test → Paddington alcohol test –

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. It's just a test, like all of the others. Tony (talk) 05:54, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose; looks like a proper noun to me. It's the name of a specific test, isn't it? Powers ^T 02:04, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

From this category, it looks very clear that WP doesn't capitalise test. Like law, hypothesis, and many other common nouns in such items. Tony (talk) 02:51, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

• Support That category is instructive, with plenty of relevant examples such as Bielschowsky's head tilt test, Sabin–Feldman dye test, and Rosenbach's test. The current capitalization would only be appropriate if it were proprietary, such as with Heimlich Maneuver and Graduate Record Examinations. --BDD (talk) 19:14, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support – there's not much evidence that it has been accepted in the language as an exception to the usual pattern. Various scholarly articles, such as this one], use lower case, so according to MOS:CAPS, so should we. Dicklyon (talk) 22:16, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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