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Capitalization and hyphen[edit]

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[edit]

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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 Point → Public 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]

Support per nom. Not a proper name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:13, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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