Talk:PureBoys

Latest comment: 16 years ago by JPG-GR in topic Requested move

Naming convention

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All Japanese names in Wikipedia are represent in western format, as per: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). Do not revert names of modern figures to Japanese format. Inviolata (talk) 01:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 01:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

PureBOYSPureBoys — As per Wikipedia:Naming conventions, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations), Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). All capitalized "BOYS" in this case is a trademark style choice, not an acronym, thus should be lowercased and have the capitalized name redirect to the properly named article (eg. D-BOYS, NEWS, TOKIO. —Inviolata (talk) 01:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
  • Comment I'm suggesting "PureBoys" because they're clearly supposed to be two words mashed together and differentiated by the alternate capitalization, not one run-on word as "Pureboys" would make it (see graphic in the bottom at pureboys.jp). In either case, nothing says Pureboys can't redirect to PureBoys too or vice-versa - the important is whether it be "boys" or "Boys", neither one makes "BOYS" the correct capitalization to use on Wikipedia. Inviolata (talk) 16:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
  • The problem is that whether we use PureBoys or Pureboys, we would be violating WP:OR, which is why we are forced to keep the article at PureBOYS. In cases like that of TIME magazine, there is only one way to write it without using all-caps, namely Time, so original research doesn't come into it. However, with PureBOYS it's not obvious what the de-capped version would be, so a decision would have to be made, and such a decision would violate WP:OR. If we decide to use the spelling PureBoys, it would be original research, because, as you admit, Pureboys would also be a valid possibility. And if we decide to use the spelling Pureboys, that too would, as our decision, violate WP:OR. Arbitrarily deciding which way to de-cap a name is original research. It's against Wikipedia policy. Timeineurope (talk) 17:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.