Talk:Religious Issue

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Requested move 9 July 2018[edit]

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 00:32, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Religious QuestionReligious question – Grammar. Noun. Chicbyaccident (talk) 22:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Lean to Oppose – this is the name of a specific particular event and it can be argued to be a proper noun here. In Portuguese, it is either written in title case or within scare quotes, and English literature on it is sparse: Machado uses Religious Question, von Sinner "Religious Question", as does Thornton. This is akin to the Dreyfuss Affair which, to my surprise, rests at the sentence-case, following a brief move war in 2009 or so, so it might be tested in a fresh RM. No such user (talk) 09:38, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, per proper noun for a specific event and situation. Or else it's a generic "religious question" which has little meaning to this page. And the Dreyfus Affair is at Dreyfus affair? Thanks for pointing that out No such user, and I'm not seeing an RM so it was boldly moved at some point and can, I would think, be moved back. Some of these things are proper nouns, and this one easily qualifies. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:04, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral, pending further research: We seem to have a lot of articles like this and most are capitalized, so either we're right to do so, or more articles need to move. Some quick looking around shows them commonly capitalized in RS, but not universally. I don't know if it's close enough to overwhelmingly consistent style in the RS to support the capitalization (or whether this varies by case). Being "the name of a specific particular event" isn't sufficient; we routinely lower-case event monickers, most especially when they are are descriptive like this, if the sources do not capitalize them with near uniformity. This particular case has too few sources cited to investigate it yet.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  03:47, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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